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Gustave Le Gray
The French Fleet, Cherbourg
1858, 4-6 August
Albumen silver print
30.8 x 39.1 cm (12 1/8 x 15 3/8 ins)
J. Paul Getty Museum
Object Number: 2014.57
LL/60445
Getty description: The photograph depicts a fleet of French naval ships in the harbor of Cherbourg in Normandy, France. The occasion is the inauguration of the harbor as well as a new railway line linking the town to Paris. Between August 3 and 21, 1858, Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie visited Brittany and Normandy, anchoring at Cherbourg between August 4 and 8, which is when this photograph was taken.
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