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Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884

Brig on the Water, 1856

Albumen print from wet collodion on glass negative, from the Vistas del Mar album
32.4 x 41.0 cm
Hugh Edwards Fund, 1971.577.12

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Milwaukee Art Museum, "Gustave Le Gray in Context," January 18–April 14, 2002.

AIC, "Regarding Seas and Skies: Photographic Seascapes by Gustave Le Gray, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and DoDo Jin Ming," November 1, 2003–February 15, 2004. (David Travis)

Publication History

Aubenas, Sylvie. 2002. “Gustave Le Gray: 1820–1884.” Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum/Bibliothèque Nationale de France. p. 108. fig. 128. cat. 109. (other print of this image)

Janis, Eugenia Parry. 1987. "The Photography of Gustave Le Gray." Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. frontispiece.