LOT DETAILS

Materials:

albumen print from wet collodion glass negative mounted on original board

Size Notes:

mount; image/sheet: 31 x 40.5 cm

Markings:

facsimile signature in red ink (recto)

Literature:

Eugenia Parry Janis, The Photography of Gustave Le Gray, The Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1987, pl. 3, p. 63. Pierre Apraxine et al., Une passion française – photographies de la collection Roger Thérond , Filipacchi, Paris, 1999, pp. 206-207 (erroneously titled). Ken Jacobson, The Lovely Sea View – A study of the marine photographs published by Gustave Le Gray, 1856-1858 , Ken & Jenny Jacobson, Petches Bridge, 2001, pl. 7, p. 39, and note 76, p. 54. Sylvie Aubenas, Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884 , The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2002, pl. 272-273, pp. 236-237, and cat. no. 125, p. 365 (the Thérond collection print)

Provenance:

Charles Denis Labrousse (1828-1898), Paris; ROUILLAC, Vendôme, France, June 18, 2011, lot 32