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| 1. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1855 (ca) The Sun at Zenith, Normandy Albumen print, from paper negative 12 3/4 x 16 3/8 ins George Eastman Museum In addition to being fast enough to stop action like breaking waves, the practicality and reproducibility of Le Gray's process also made it excellent for making architectural views and was used by many of the photographers who documented France's endangered national historical sites. |
| 2. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (made) The Sun at its Zenith - Ocean Albumen print, from a collodion-on-glass negative 32.6 x 41.4 cm Victoria and Albert Museum Townshend bequest 1868, Museum number: 67:999 |
| 3. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1855-1859 Seascape with Sunset Albumen print, from wet collodion negative(s) 12 3/16 x 15 11/16 Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc |
| 4. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 Effet de soleil dans les nuages, océan Albumen print 31 x 40.5 cm Sotheby's - Paris Courtesy of Sotheby's Paris (Photographs, Fri, 20 Nov 09, 4:00 PM, PF9027, Lot 140) Tampon humide du fac-similé de la signature a l'encre rouge sur l'image en bas a droite. Sylvie Aubenas, Gustave Le Gray 1820- 1884, Paris, BibliothÞque Nationale de France/Gallimard, 2002, ill. P. 314. |
| 5. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (ca) An Effect of the Sun, Normandy Albumen print, from wet collodion negative 32.00 x 41.80 cm (12 9/16 x 16 7/16 ins) (image) Cleveland Museum of Art Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, Accession No.: 1987.54 |
| 6. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 Un Effet de Soleil, Ocean no. 23 Albumen print 31 x 40.7 cm Israel Museum, Jerusalem Gift of Anne Ehrenkranz, New York, to American Friends of the Israel Museum, Accession number: B87.1018 |
| 7. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 Solar Effect--Ocean Albumen print, from collodion-on-glass negative 32.5 x 41.4 cm (image) 35.2 x 45.9 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Townshend bequest, Museum number: 67:998 |
| 8. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 Le Soleil Couronné -- Océan Albumen print 12¥ x 16 3/8ins (32.3 x 41.1 cm) Christie's - London Courtesy of Christies, London (Sale: 7434 - Photographs, Lot: 41 - Nov 13, 2007) Red ink facsimile signature stamp on recto; numbered 'No.13,421.', embossed credit stamp and paper supplier's monogram 'EB' [Ernest Binant], printed label with title and negative number 'No.21' on mount. Aubenas et al., Gustave Le Gray 1820-1884, BibliothÞque national de France, 2002, p.111, pl.131, no.119. Janis remarks: 'If there is some confusion regarding the exact time of day (for here too the effect is like a theatrical sunset, not high noon), Le Gray maintained a strong degree of intimacy with the landscape as a whole. Even in these large and dramatic prints, we feel united across space with the little boats whose perfectly rendered forms seem to beckon us into halcyon infinities beyond the horizon' (p.81). |
| 9. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (ca) Marine Salt print, papier salé albuminisé o partir de deux négatifs verre 32.1 x 48 cm Musée Condé © direction des musées de France, © musée Condé, 1999, Inventory No: PH No 648, Joconde: 00000105705 Cachet a l'encre rouge Gustave Le Gray en bas a droite; timbre sec Photographie Gustave Le Gray & Cie Paris en bas au centre sur le montage. No 5449 a l'encre sur le montage. |
| 10. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (made) The Steamboat - Ocean Albumen print, from collodion-on-glass negative 32.1 x 41.7 cm (image) 34.5 x 43.9 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Museum number: 67:997 |
| 11. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (ca) Marine Salt print, papier salé albuminisé o partir de deux négatifs verre 31 x 40.3 cm Musée Condé © direction des musées de France, © musée Condé, 1999, Inventory No: PH No 647, Joconde: 00000105704 Cachet a l'encre rouge Gustave Le Gray en bas a droite; timbre sec Photographie Gustave Le Gray & Cie Paris en bas au centre sur le montage. No 6090 a l'encre sur le montage. |
| 12. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (ca) Marine (titre au dos) Salt print 32.1 x 41.3 cm Musée Condé © direction des musées de France, © musée Condé, 1999, Inventory No: PH No 649, Joconde: 00000105706 Cachet a l'encre rouge Gustave Le Gray en bas a droite; timbre sec Photographie Gustave Le Gray & Cie Paris en bas au centre sur le montage. No 15014 et No 26 a l'encre sur le montage. Nils Ramstet, An Album of Seascapes by Gustave le Gray , History of Photography, vol. 4, n¦ 2, avril 198p. 135 repr. Fig. 24, sans titre, épreuve du Musée International de la photographie, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York |
| 13. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856-1859 Mediterranean Sea at Sete Albumen silver print, from two glass negatives 32.1 x 41.9 cm (12 5/8 x 16 1/2 in) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gilman Collection, Purchase, 2005 (2005.100.48) |
| 14. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856-1859 Mediterranean with Mount Agde Albumen print 12 5/8 x 16 1/8ins (32 x 41 cm) Christie's - London Courtesy of Christies, London (Sale: 7434 - Photographs, Lot: 40 - Nov 13, 2007) Red ink facsimile signature on recto; numbered 'No.11,633.', 'C.19' in ink, embossed paper supplier's monogram 'EB' [Ernest Binant] on mount. Janis, The Photography of Gustave Le Gray, The Art Institute of Chicago/University of Chicago, 1987, p.75, fig.18. According to Janis: 'Some of Le Gray's experiments with combination printing involve a series of closely observed variations of sea and sky from the rocky Mediterranean shore that faced the Gulf of Lions westward toward a small projecting peninsula with Mount Agde in the distance. There are at least seven variations of this view, altered in rather surprising combinations' (p.75). The present lot is one those variations. |
| 15. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856-1859 (ca) Le Vapeur Albumen print 12 1/2 x 16 1/4 Lee Gallery Facsimile ink stamp of the photographer's name in red on bottom right corner of photo; numbered "23002" on bottom left corner of mount; "no " on bottom right corner of mount (number not visible due to small tear), ZZ1224 |
| 16. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (made) The Tugboat Albumen print, from collodion-on-glass negative 31.1 x 41.3 cm Victoria and Albert Museum Bequeathed by Chauncey Hare Townshend, Museum number: 68:000 |
| 17. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 The Great Wave, Sete Albumen silver print, from glass negative 33.7 x 41.4 cm (13 1/4 x 16 5/16 in) Metropolitan Museum of Art Gift of John Goldsmith Phillips, 1976 (1976.646) The dramatic effects of sunlight, clouds, and water in Le Gray's seascapes stunned his contemporaries and immediately brought him international recognition. At a time when photographic emulsions were not equally sensitive to all colors of the spectrum, most photographers found it impossible to achieve proper exposure of both landscape and sky in a single picture. Le Gray solved this problem by printing two negatives on a single sheet of paper: one exposed for the sea, the other for the sky, and sometimes made on separate occasions or in different locations. Le Gray's marine pictures caused a sensation not only because their simultaneous depiction of sea and heavens represented a technical tour de force, but also because the resulting poetic effect was without precedent in photography. For an analysis of this photograph: Juliet Hacking (ed.), 2012, Photography: The Whole Story, (Prestel), pp. 98-99 |
| 18. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 (made) The Great Wave, Sete Albumen print, from two collodion-on-glass negatives 34.3 x 41.2 cm Victoria and Albert Museum Townshend bequest, Museum number: 68:004 |
| 19. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 Grande Vague Albumen print, from two collodion on glass negatives, composite 30.9 x 41 cm CEROS - Jean-Mathieu Martini / Serge Plantureux Binoche et Giquello, épreuves choisies, 18 november 2010, lot no: 40 Numbered '13.440' at the back in ink, conservation report. All Le Gray prints are numbered at the back, in chronological order of production. A larger print at the BibliothÞque Nationale, described by Sylvie Aubenas, Gustave Le Gray, 2002, notice 134. Une Première marine, le Brick au clair de lune, est exposée le 6 novembre 1856 a Londres dans une réunion de la Photographic Society of London. Parmi les autres études du rivage normand, on trouve Cabourg, Le Soleil au zénith, Le Soleil couronné, le port et le musée du Havre, les plages de Sainte-Adresse. Le succÞs immédiat du Brick au clair de lune, en particulier, et de cette Première série en général fait sans doute entrevoir a Le Gray la possibilité de rembourser les de Briges et de poursuivre une oeuvre personnelle tout en faisant tourner son atelier du boulevard. Fort de cet exploit, il emporte son appareil sur les bords de la Méditerranée l'année suivante, profitant du prolongement jusqu'a SÞte de la ligne de chemin de fer Bordeaux-Toulouse: il photographie pour Le Monde illustré la gare de Toulouse lors de l'inauguration, le 2 avril 1857, puis celle de SÞte, enfin il plante son trépied face a la mer. Cette seconde série contient certaines de ses marines aujourd'hui les plus appréciées: la Grande vague, la Vague brisée, la montagne d'Agde, sans compter les nombreuses vues du port de SÞte. (Sylvie Aubenas, Les marines in : Gustave Le Gray, BNF, 2002) |
| 20. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (ca) Flotte francaise en rade de Brest Salt print 31.6 x 41.7 cm Musée Condé © direction des musées de France, © musée Condé, 1999, Inventory No: PH No 650, Joconde: 00000105707 Cachet a l'encre rouge Gustave Le Gray en bas a droite; timbre sec Photographie Gustave Le Gray & Cie Paris en bas au centre sur le montage. Titre, No 20.737 et No 37 a l'encre sur le montage. Eugenia Parry Janis, The Photography of Gustave Le Gray.1987, Chicago, Art Institute, repr. P. 70 fig. 13 sous le titre Flagships, Toulon.1855 (?) |
| 21. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1858 Seascape: Flotte Francaise a Cherbourg Albumen print, from wet collodion negative 12 1/2 x 15 7/8 Charles Isaacs Photographs, Inc |
| 22. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1858, 5 August The English Fleet at Cherbourg Albumen print 30.4 x 38.4 cm Royal Photograph Collection The Royal Collection ® 2010, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, RCIN 2934238 This photograph was included in the exhibition Victoria & Albert: Art & Love at The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, until 31 October 2010. Acquired by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, 1858. In 2010 this photograph was uploaded to flickr by The British Monarchy. The text on the Royal Collection website (www.royalcollection.org.uk) describes this photograph (Accesssed: 6 Aug 2010): On 4 August 1858 Queen Victoria and Prince Albert sailed on the Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert to Cherbourg in order to meet Emperor Napoleon III and Empress Eugénie. The royal yacht received gun salutes from the English fleet who were awaiting her arrival in the harbour at Cherbourg. Photographer's credit on the print in red: Gustave Le Gray |
| 23. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 Brig on the Water Albumen print 12¢ x 16¢ in (31.8 x 42 cm) Swann Galleries - New York With Le Gray's stamped signature at the lower right corner of print recto, his partial blind stamp and the numeric notation "4," in pencil, on mount recto; professionally mounted to an archival secondary support mount. Gustave Le Gray, whose most admired works are his seascapes, merged photography's technical advances with a painter's 'sthetic vision. He photographed maritime subjects at the Normandy coast, Sainte-Adresse and Le Havre, and Mediterranean, for about four years. This photograph was included in a lot sold at the Swann Galleries auction "Important 19th & 20th Century Photographs" (New York, Mon Oct 15, 2007). |
| 24. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (ca) Le brick au clair de lune Salt print, papier salé albuminisé o partir de deux négatifs verre 32 x 41.7 cm Musée Condé © direction des musées de France, © musée Condé, 1999, Inventory No: PH No 646, Joconde: 00000105703 Cachet a l'encre rouge Gustave Le Gray en bas a droite; timbre sec Photographie Gustave Le Gray & Cie Paris en bas au centre du montage. This print was exhibited at Royal Photographic Society, Crystal Palace, Sydenham, 1856 Franþoise Heilbrun, Un album de primitifs de la photographie franþaise , dans la revue du Louvre et des musées de France.1980 n¦ 1, p. 27-28, repr. Fig. 8, et p. 37 n¦ 35, citant le tirage acquis en 1979 par le musée d'Orsay |
| 25. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (made) The Brig Albumen print, from collodion-on-glass negative 32.4 x 40.9 cm (image) 35.5 x 45 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Bequeathed by Chauncey Hare Townshend, Museum number: 67:995 |
| 26. |  | Gustave Le Gray n.d. Vue de Mer, Le Brick Albumen print Victoria and Albert Museum Museum number: E.1338-2000 |
| 27. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 Brig on the Water Albumen print image: 29.4 x 39.9 cm (11 9/16 x 15 11/16 ins) sheet: 44.2 x 54.4 cm (17 3/8 x 21 7/16 ins) Princeton University Art Museum Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund, Object Number: x1985-33 |
| 28. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 Large Wave, Mediterranean Sea Albumen print, from two negatives 12 3/4 x 16 1/4 J. Paul Getty Museum Lent by the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris |
| 29. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 (ca) Seascape with a Ship Leaving Port Albumen silver print J. Paul Getty Museum © J. Paul Getty Trust [84.XP.218.71] |
| 30. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856-1857 Étude de nuages Albumen silver print, from glass negatives 32 x 41.8 cm (12 5/8 x 16 7/16 ins) (image) Metropolitan Museum of Art Bequest of Maurice B. Sendak, 2013 Accession Number: 2013.159.39 Curatorial description Le Gray's majestic marine views created an international sensation when they were first exhibited in London and Paris. At a time when camera exposures often lasted for several seconds, viewers were amazed by Le Gray's ability to freeze the motion of breaking waves, and the perfectly backlit clouds drifting above reinforced the feeling of spontaneity. That the clouds and waves were printed from two separate negatives remained the artist's secret during his lifetime. Although Le Gray never publicly acknowledged his method, he did leave some inadvertent clues in the pictures themselves. Here, the same dramatic cloud formation floats above two different beachesone in Normandy, the other two along France's Mediterranean coast. |
| 31. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856-1857 Seascape with Cloud Study; Vue de mer, Ciel Nuageux Albumen silver print 30.1 x 40.7 cm (image) 52.9 x 67.3 cm (mount) Victoria and Albert Museum Museum number: E.1339-2000 |
| 32. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856 (made) Solar Effect in the Clouds - Ocean; Vue de Mer, le Soleil Albumen print, from collodion on glass negative 30.9 x 39.7 cm (image) 52.2 x 67.3 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Museum number: E.1340-2000 |
| 33. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1856-1857 (made) Lighthouse and Jetty, Le Havre Albumen print, from collodion-on-glass negative 30.6 x 40.5 cm (image) 35 x 44.5 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Bequeathed by Chauncey Hare Townshend, Museum number: 68:002 |
| 34. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 Lighthouse and Jetty, le Havre Albumen silver print 31 x 40.3 cm (12 3/16 x 15 7/8 in) J. Paul Getty Museum Object number: 85.XM.153 |
| 35. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 (made) The Breaking Wave - Mediterranean Sea Albumen print, from collodion-on-glass negative 41.7 x 32.5 cm (image) 45 x 35.7 cm (sheet) Victoria and Albert Museum Bequeathed by Chauncey Hare Townshend, Museum number: 68:003 |
| 36. |  | Gustave Le Gray 1857 (made) Cloudy Sky - Mediterranean Sea Albumen print, from collodion-on-glass negative 30 x 41 cm Victoria and Albert Museum Bequeathed by Chauncey Hare Townshend, Museum number: 68:001 |
| 37. |  | Gustave Le Gray 2002 Book cover for Sylvie Aubenas, ed., "Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884" (Paris: Bibliotheque Nationale de France/ Gallimard, 2002) Book cover Private collection |