Solar Effect in the Clouds-Ocean

Photography and Media

1856/57

Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Gustave Le Gray
Title: Solar Effect in the Clouds-Ocean
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1856–1857
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"; inscribed recto, on album page, lower left, in brown ink: "[illegible/cut off]"; unmarked verso
Dimensions: Image/paper: 31.1 × 39.7 cm (12 1/4 × 15 11/16 in.); Album page: 50.8 × 64.3 cm (20 × 25 3/8 in.)
Credit Line: Hugh Edwards Fund
Reference Number: 1971.577.14
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Art Institute of Chicago, “The Photography of Gustave Le Gray,” September 18–December 6, 1987.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Distant Relations,” May 8–July 18, 1993. (David Travis)
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)

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