Photographs
View of Ste-Adrese Beach with the Dumont Baths
LandscapePhotograph
Details
- Author / creator
- Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884)
- Object type
- Photograph
- Date or period
- 1856
- Dimensions summary
- Image: 30.8 × 39.1 cm; Paper: 30.8 × 39.1 cm
- Photo process
- Albumen
- Studio or series
- Gustave Le Gray
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Donation
- Credit line
- Gift of the Pemberton family, 2022
About this object
One of the pioneering masters of French landscape photography, Gustave Le Gray shows us the bathing establishments and tourist hotels that dominated the waterfront of this town on the coast of Normandy. Monet focused instead on the more picturesque and timeless beach and fishing boats. Le Gray’s image is distinctly rooted in the present—that is, the present of 1856—in a way that seems shockingly modern.
Materials and technique
Albumen print from collodion negative
Signature and marks
In graphite on verso: “392”; Written in brown ink on verso: “12,982”
