Lot 104
  • 104

Gustave Le Gray 1820-1882

Estimate
50,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Gustave Le Gray
  • SAILING SHIPS, SÈTE
albumen print, numbered '8846' in a contemporary hand in ink on the reverse, matted, circa 1854

Provenance

Private Collection

William L. Schaeffer/Photographs, Connecticut

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above, circa 1990 

Exhibited

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Literature

Other prints of this image:

Ken Jacobson, The Lovely Sea-View: A Study of the Marien Photographs Published by Gustave Le Gray, 1856-1858 (Petches Bridge, 2001), pl. 9

Une Passion Française: Photographies de la Collection Roger Therond (Paris: La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 1999, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 51 (variant)

Nils Ramstedt, 'An Album of Seascapes by Gustave Le Gray,' History of Photography, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1980, p. 123

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