Gustave Le Gray 1820-1882

albumen print, the photographer's red facsimile signature stamp in the lower right corner, on the original oblong folio mount, numbered 'No. 10,323' in an unidentified contemporary hand in ink and with the photographer's studio and decorative monogram blindstamps, and a label, with the title and 'No. 11' in letterpress, on the mount, matted, circa 1856

Private Collection

William L. Schaeffer/Photographs, Connecticut

Acquired by Margaret W. Weston from the above, circa 1990 

Monterey Museum of Art, Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston, January - April 2003

Passion and Precision: Photographs from the Collection of Margaret W. Weston (Monterey Museum of Art, 2003, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 39 (this print)

Other prints of this image:

Eugenia Parry Janis, The Photography of Gustave Le Gray (The Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), p. 64

Une Passion Française: Photographies de la Collection Roger Therond (Paris: La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, 1999, in conjunction with the exhibition), p. 50

Sandra S. Phillips, Alan Trachtenberg, Douglas R. Nickel, and Corey Keller, Taking Place: Photographs from the Prentice & Paul Sack Collection (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2005, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 67

Nils Ramstedt, 'An Album of Seascapes by Gustave Le Gray,' History of Photography, Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1980, p. 130