Brig on the Water

Photography and Media

1856

Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Gustave Le Gray
Title: Brig on the Water
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1856
Medium: Albumen print, from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower right, on image, in red pencil [?]: "Gustave Le Gray"; blind stamped recto, on album page, lower center: "PHOTOGRAPHIE / GUSTAVE LE GRAY & C / PARIS"; unmarked verso
Dimensions: Image/paper: 32.4 × 41 cm (12 13/16 × 16 3/16 in.); Album page: 50.9 × 64.3 cm (20 1/16 × 25 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Hugh Edwards Fund
Reference Number: 1971.577.12
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Janis, Eugenia Parry. 1987. “The Photography of Gustave Le Gray.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. frontispiece.

Art Institute of Chicago, “The Grand Tour: Mid-nineteenth Century Photographs from the Leonard Peil Collection,” July 12-August 26, 1979.
Milwaukee Art Museum, “Gustave Le Gray in Context,” January 18–April 14, 2002.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Regarding Seas and Skies: Photographic Seascapes by Gustave Le Gray, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and DoDo Jin Ming,” November 1, 2003–February 15, 2004. (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, Photography and Media rotation, Gallery 10, October 6, 2020-June 13, 2021.

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