An Effect of the Sun, Normandy
c. 1856
Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884)
Photography
An Effect of the Sun, Normandy, c. 1856. Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884). Albumen print from wet collodion negative; image: 32 x 41.8 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.); matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1987.54
- Maker/Artist
- Le Gray, Gustave
- Classification
- Photograph
- Formatted Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 32 x 41.8 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 71.1 cm (22 x 28 in.)
- Inscribed
- Inscription: Written in red ink on recto: "Gustave Le Gray"; on label on recto: "All titles Effet du [sic] Soleil Ocean No. 23"
- Departments
- Photography
- Accession Number
- 1987.54
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- The Year in Review for 1987, Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum, Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art, France at the Dawn of Photography, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Nov. 17 - Dec. 28, 1969: "French Primitive Photography." Exhibition catalogue p. 47, repr. p. 47.<br>CMA, February 24 - April 17, 1988: "Year in Review 1987," CMA Bulletin, 75 (February 1988), p. 67, no. 66, repr. p. 58-59. <br>CMA, June 29 - August 26, 1990: "The World Seen Anew: English and French Photographs of the 1850's," Gallery D, no exhibition catalogue. <br>CMA, June 7 - September 8, 1991: "Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum." <br>CMA, November 20,1996 - February 2, 1997: "Legacy of Light: Master Photographs from the Cleveland Museum of Art."<br>Galeries Mansart and Mazarine, Richelieu, France, March 19 - June 16, 2002: "Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884." Aubenas, Sylvie. Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884 (Gallimard: Bibliothèque nationale de France, 2002). (Also exhibited at The Getty Museum, Los Angeles, July 9 - Sept. 29, 2002). Catalogue no. 130. p. 110.<br>Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 26 - June 16, 2005 . "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art"., The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/04/2009 - 01/24/2010); "France at the Dawn of Photography"
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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