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The Breaking Wave Wall Art
ART BY: Gustave Le Gray
The Breaking Wave Wall Art
ART BY: Gustave Le Gray
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About this artwork
The Breaking Wave is an albumen print, no. 15 from the album "vistas del mar" by Gustave Le Gray (1820–1884), dated 1857. The artist is catalogued as French. The original is held by the Art Institute of Chicago, and the file offered here measures 2437 × 3000 px (1.4 MB). You will find it among Prints, in portrait format. Archive Lane holds 40 works by Gustave Le Gray, a French artist.
Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray was a French painter, draughtsman, sculptor, print-maker, and photographer. He has been called "the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century" because of his technical innovations, his instruction of other noted photographers, and "the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making." He was an important contributor to the development of the wax paper negative.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). All works by Gustave Le Gray →
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