The Beach at Sainte-Adresse

CC0 Public Domain Designation

Photography and Media

1856/57

Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Gustave Le Gray
Title: The Beach at Sainte-Adresse
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: Made 1856–1857
Medium: Albumen print, from the album "Vistas del Mar"
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower right corner, in ink: "No. 7"; signed recto, on image, lower right, in red ink: "Gustave Le Gray"; inscribed recto, on mount, below image, lower left, typed in ink: "102"; blind stamped recto, on mount, below image, lower center: "PHOTOGRAPHIE/GUSTAVE LE GRAY & Co/PARIS"; no markings verso
Dimensions: 31.3 × 38.7 cm (12 3/8 × 15 1/4 in.)
Credit Line: Hugh Edwards Fund
Reference Number: 1971.577.15
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Janis, Eugenia Parry. 1987. “The Photography of Gustave Le Gray.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago Press. p. 66, pl. 8. (other print of this image)
Aubenas, Sylvie. 2002. “Gustave Le Gray: 1820–1884.” Exh. cat. J. Paul Getty Museum/Bibliothèque Nationale de France. p. 118, fig. 138, cat. 112. (other print of this image)
Kelly, Simon and April M. Watson. 2013. “Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet.” Exh. cat. Saint Louis Art Museum and The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. p. 275, cat. 107.

Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, “A History of Photography from Chicago Collection,” April 24–June 6, 1982.
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Photography of Gustave Le Gray,” September 18–December 6, 1987.
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)
Kansas City, Missouri, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, “Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet,” October 19, 2013-February 9, 2014; traveled to the Saint Louis Art Museum, March 16, 2014-July 14, 2014.

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