Gustave le Gray

Bas-Bréau, Foret de Fontainebleau
1849-1852
Washington National Gallery of Art

Study of Trees and Pathways
1849
J. Paul Getty Museum

Le Pavé de Chailly
c. 1852
Victoria and Albert Museum

Le Pavé de Chailly, autrefois route royale, traversant la foret vers le chateau de Fontainebleau.

Paris, Pont du Carrousel - Vue du Pont des Arts
1856-1858
Washington National Gallery of Art

Gustave le Gray started as a a painter to turn later to photography. By the end of the 1850's he would leave France to set to Egypt.

I saw some of his works at the exhibition opened these days at the Washington Gallery of Art. He made these photographies of trees and pathways within the forest of Fontainebleau at the middle of 19th century. As for his Pont du Carousel, it is not in the exhibition: it belongs to the permanent collection of the gallery.



(In the Forest of Fontainebleau - from Corot to Monet)