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Louvre Pavillon Mollien

Photograph
ca. 1855 (made)
Artist/Maker
Le Gray, Gustave (photographer)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Photograph, Louvre Pavillon Mollien, Gustave Le Gray, Paris, ca. 1855

Object details

Category
Photographs
Object type
Photograph
TitleLouvre Pavillon Mollien
Materials and techniques
Photograph; albumen print from wet collodion negative
Photography
Brief description
Photograph, Louvre Pavillon Mollien, Gustave Le Gray, Paris, ca. 1855
Marks and inscriptions
(Facsimile signature in red ink on photograph. Blind stamped on mount.)
Gallery label
(1987-2006)
'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'

Trained like Britain's Roger Fenton as a painter Le Gray wrote in 1852: 'The future of photography does not lie in the cheapness but in the quality of the picture. If a photograph is beautiful, complete, and durable, it acquires an intrinsic value before which its price disappears entirely. It is my wish that photography, rather than falling into the domain of industry or of commerce, might remain in that of art'. The accuracy, grandeur and tonal richness of this architectural view, purchased in the late 1850s, typify Le Gray's work.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
35799

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Record createdMay 30, 2006
Record URL
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