Louvre Pavillon Mollien
Photograph
ca. 1855 (made)
ca. 1855 (made)
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Place of origin |
Photograph, Louvre Pavillon Mollien, Gustave Le Gray, Paris, ca. 1855
Object details
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Object type | |
Title | Louvre Pavillon Mollien |
Materials and techniques | Photograph; albumen print from wet collodion negative |
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 | '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.(1987-2006) |
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Accession number | 35799 |
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Record created | May 30, 2006 |
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