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Passionate Customer Service Museum Quality Art Prints Customization Options AvailableLight, clouds, water. A gnarled oak, sunbursts on boulders in the light forest. In the mid-19th century, photography was a condescendingly ridiculed craft that tried to keep up with painting, that wanted to use machines to depict the world. And an art that performed the miracle of seeing the world in black and white gray.
A life like from a novel that serves all the usual romantic artist clichés. Frenchman, artist, bon vivant, inventor, tinkerer ... Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) fits there, in his time and in France, where he was born and learned painting, in Rome and Italy, where the young man, as in the classical Bildungsroman and like Byron or Stendhal, approached the "great art", fell in love with the Italian Palmira Maddalena Gertrude Leonardi (whom one imagines involuntarily like Sophia Loren; in fact, she looks rather shyly cute in the photograph preserved of her), married her and fathered six children with her. He fits in Paris in the middle of the 19th century, where he turns to the brand-new photography, develops technical procedures as one of its pioneers, is a successful court photographer of the French king, of European nobility and bourgeoisie, opens a "photo studio", goes bankrupt with it - the cliché of an artist - and - the life cliché does not stop! - leaves his wife and children, flees from creditors to the south, travels around the Mediterranean with Alexandre Dumas and works as a war photographer for the French in Syria. His wife struggles to earn 50 francs a month in alimony. How does one imagine the last twenty years, his time in Cairo? A - in Le Gray's imaginary world - modest existence as an art teacher and photographer, past the "great" time as a celebrated photo artist, a few commissions from the Egyptian Viceroy, a liaison with nineteen-year-old Anaïs Candounia, the son of the two is born a year before Le Gray's death.
He became internationally famous for his photographs of the sea: Surf, waves, piers, sailing ships under and in front of a sky streaked with clouds and broken by sunlight, sun glow on the sea - photographs that could not really have existed at the time. Le Gray photographed with collodion wet plates, a precursor to analog celluloid film. The wet glass plate, coated with a collodion compound and dipped in a silver nitrate solution, was placed in a cassette in the camera. Color fidelity and light sensitivity were very limited. Anyone photographing a ship at sea in the mid-19th century would usually find the sky overexposed, blurred, and almost white. For his marine images, Le Gray invented photo montage, in which he developed several combined negatives into one photograph. Sea and sky photos were often not even taken in the same place or at the same time. By 1868, these images were so famous that they were included in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Although today only insiders know Gustave Le Gray's name, his photographs - including the gnarled beauties of Fontainebleau, the forest that is both jungle and park - fetch top prices of up to 700,000 euros.
Light, clouds, water. A gnarled oak, sunbursts on boulders in the light forest. In the mid-19th century, photography was a condescendingly ridiculed craft that tried to keep up with painting, that wanted to use machines to depict the world. And an art that performed the miracle of seeing the world in black and white gray.
A life like from a novel that serves all the usual romantic artist clichés. Frenchman, artist, bon vivant, inventor, tinkerer ... Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) fits there, in his time and in France, where he was born and learned painting, in Rome and Italy, where the young man, as in the classical Bildungsroman and like Byron or Stendhal, approached the "great art", fell in love with the Italian Palmira Maddalena Gertrude Leonardi (whom one imagines involuntarily like Sophia Loren; in fact, she looks rather shyly cute in the photograph preserved of her), married her and fathered six children with her. He fits in Paris in the middle of the 19th century, where he turns to the brand-new photography, develops technical procedures as one of its pioneers, is a successful court photographer of the French king, of European nobility and bourgeoisie, opens a "photo studio", goes bankrupt with it - the cliché of an artist - and - the life cliché does not stop! - leaves his wife and children, flees from creditors to the south, travels around the Mediterranean with Alexandre Dumas and works as a war photographer for the French in Syria. His wife struggles to earn 50 francs a month in alimony. How does one imagine the last twenty years, his time in Cairo? A - in Le Gray's imaginary world - modest existence as an art teacher and photographer, past the "great" time as a celebrated photo artist, a few commissions from the Egyptian Viceroy, a liaison with nineteen-year-old Anaïs Candounia, the son of the two is born a year before Le Gray's death.
He became internationally famous for his photographs of the sea: Surf, waves, piers, sailing ships under and in front of a sky streaked with clouds and broken by sunlight, sun glow on the sea - photographs that could not really have existed at the time. Le Gray photographed with collodion wet plates, a precursor to analog celluloid film. The wet glass plate, coated with a collodion compound and dipped in a silver nitrate solution, was placed in a cassette in the camera. Color fidelity and light sensitivity were very limited. Anyone photographing a ship at sea in the mid-19th century would usually find the sky overexposed, blurred, and almost white. For his marine images, Le Gray invented photo montage, in which he developed several combined negatives into one photograph. Sea and sky photos were often not even taken in the same place or at the same time. By 1868, these images were so famous that they were included in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Although today only insiders know Gustave Le Gray's name, his photographs - including the gnarled beauties of Fontainebleau, the forest that is both jungle and park - fetch top prices of up to 700,000 euros.
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.jpg "Oak Tree and Rocks, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1849-52 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Standing Female Nude by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Female Nude Reclining on a Recamier Sofa by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Brig on the Water, 1856 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Saint-Etienne du Mont church, window glass depicting the Dead Christ by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Great Wave, Sète by Gustave Le Gray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-392526).jpg "Camel Lying Down by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Beech Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau, c. 1856 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Great Wave, Sète by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Barricade of General Turr, Via Toledo in Palermo, June 1860 by Gustave Le Gray")
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![Untitled [cavalry], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray](/kunstwerke/300px/Gustave_Le_Gray_-_Untitled_cavalry_1857_-_(MeisterDrucke-1167658).jpg "Untitled [cavalry], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Great Wave, Sète by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "A Gentleman, possibly Frédéric Brisson by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Brig upon the Water by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Pont du Carrousel, Paris: View to the West from the Pont des Arts by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Ramparts of Carcassonne, 1851 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Destruction of the Castres Quarter, Palermo, 1860 by Gustave Le Gray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1311008).jpg "Porte Bachelier, Eglise Saint-Sernin, Toulouse (Haute-Garonne) by Auguste Mestral")
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.jpg "View of the Seine, Paris by Gustave Le Gray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-223855).jpg "The Imperial Yacht")
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.jpg "An Italian Street Musician, ca. 1856 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Pyramids of Giza by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Solar Effect - Ocean by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Sun at its Zenith, Normandy, c.1860 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Salon of 1852, 1852 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Jetty at Sète by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Hollow Oak Tree, Fontainebleau by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Steamboat by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Brig on the Water by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "La Reine Hortense - Yacht of the Emperor, Havre by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Seascape, Normandy, 1856-57 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Raised Flag of the Zouave Regiment, Camp de Châlons by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Portrait of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte as Prince-President by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Portail Milieu d")
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.jpg "The Tugboat by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Prince Moskova at Chalons by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Brig on the Water by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Hotel de Cluny, Paris, ca. 1851 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Tree Study, Forest of Fontainebleau by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Empress Eugénie in Prayer by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Fête de S. A. Ismaïl Pacha à bord des bateaux de LL. A A. les princes, janvier 1867 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "View from Photographer")
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.jpg "The French and English Fleets, Cherbourg, August 1858 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Cloudy Sky by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Zouaves, Camp de Châlons, 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Chalons Encampment: Maneuvers on October 3, 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Portrait of Edmond Cottinet, c. 1848-50 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Seascape, Normandy by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Fontainebleau, sandy path ascending, ca. 1856 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Temple of Edfu by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Solar Effect in the Clouds-Ocean by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Soldier and Military Camel by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Untitled Zouaves, 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Cavalry Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons, 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Brig on the Water by Gustave Le Gray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-654855).jpg "The Crowned Sun, Normandy, 1856-59 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Mediterranean Sea - Sète by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Beach at Sainte-Adresse by Gustave Le Gray")
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![Untitled [Painting of The Campfires at Camp de Chalons by Bénédict Masson], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray](/kunstwerke/300px/Gustave_Le_Gray_-_Untitled_Painting_of_The_Campfires_at_Camp_de_Chalons_by_Bndict_Masson_1857_-_(MeisterDrucke-1167676).jpg "Untitled [Painting of The Campfires at Camp de Chalons by Bénédict Masson], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Hotel de Cluny, Paris by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Pathway in the Forest of Fontainbleau by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Pont du Carrousel, Paris: View to the West from the Pont des Arts by Gustave Le Gray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1331574).jpg "The Forest at Fontainebleau by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Light-Infantry Soldiers, Camp de Châlons by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Solar Effect in the Clouds-Ocean by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Beech Tree by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Untitled Zouaves by Gustave Le Gray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-1281966).jpg "Zouave Storyteller (The Story) by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Brig on the Water by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Cathedral of Notre-Dame, Detail of the Cloister Arcade, Le Puy by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Ships in the Harbor at Sète by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "View of the Plain of Thebes taken from the Temple of Karnak, 1867 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Seascape with Sailing Ship and Tugboat by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Cavalry Maneuvers, Camp de Châlons by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Port and City of Sète-Mediterranean by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Officers Seated at a Tent, Camp de Châlons, 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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![Untitled [officers and dignitaries] by Gustave Le Gray](/kunstwerke/300px/Gustave_Le_Gray_-_Untitled_officers_and_dignitaries_1857_-_(MeisterDrucke-1168608).jpg "Untitled [officers and dignitaries] by Gustave Le Gray")
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![Untitled [Zouaves], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray](/kunstwerke/300px/Gustave_Le_Gray_-_Untitled_Zouaves_1857_-_(MeisterDrucke-1168855).jpg "Untitled [Zouaves], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Cloudy Sky, Mediterranean Sea by Gustave Le Gray")
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![Untitled [Zouaves], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray](/kunstwerke/300px/Gustave_Le_Gray_-_Untitled_Zouaves_1857_-_(MeisterDrucke-1166927).jpg "Untitled [Zouaves], 1857 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Tugboat by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Study of Trees and Pathways by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Portrait of Pitre-Chevalier by Gustave Le Gray")
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_-_(MeisterDrucke-922843).jpg "The Beech Tree, c.1855-7 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Preparation of the Emperor")
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.jpg "Mass, Camp de Châlons by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Bas-Bréau, Forest of Fontainebleau, 1849-1852 by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "The Beach at Sainte-Adresse, with the Dumont Baths by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Scene near a Pond at the Petit-Mourmelon Mill by Gustave Le Gray")
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.jpg "Zouave Storyteller by Gustave Le Gray")
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