Lot 11
  • 11

Gustave Le Gray (1820-1882)

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
bidding is closed

Description

  • Gustave Le Gray
  • Manoeuvres at Chalons Camp. The mounted troops of the Imperial guard, 1853
Albumen print from a wet collodion negative, mounted on original card. With the photographer's stamp in red at lower right. Framed.

Literature

Aubenas. S. 2002 p. 370, p. 137 and cat. 153.

Condition

Some retouching in pencil in the left area of the picture. The print in excellent conditon; the card mount with some very light foxing.
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Catalogue Note

From the series Le Gray executed at the Camp de Châlons in 1853.