Le Salon de 1852 au Palais-Royal, photographie de Gustave Le Gray sur papier salé à partir d'un négatif sur verre, Musée d'Orsay. Au centre Les Demoiselles de village de Gustave Courbet, aujourd'hui au Metropolitan Museum of Art de New York.
Photograph by Gustave Le Gray
Gustave Le Gray
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.
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