Sea view, cloudy sky
Original Language TitleVue de mer, ciel nuageux
Artist
Gustave Le Gray
(French, 1820 - 1884)
Dateca. 1856
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 11 1/4 × 15 5/8 inches (28.58 × 39.69 cm)
Mount: 14 1/8 × 19 1/2 inches (35.88 × 49.53 cm)
Mount: 14 1/8 × 19 1/2 inches (35.88 × 49.53 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2008.13.13
Signednone
Inscribednone
MarkingsOn mount verso, lower right corner, in pencil: "GLG92011"
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of beautiful mass of clouds hovering above a calm sea. There is a slight hint of a ship on the horizon line.Exhibition History
Rotation 7. The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art,
Kansas City, MO, December 7, 2009 – May 17, 2010, no cat.
Impressionist France: Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October19, 2013 - February 9, 2014, Saint Louis Art Museum, March 16 - July 6, 2014, no. 105.
Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2007;
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2008.
Given by the Hall Family Foundation to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2008.
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Gustave Le Gray
1866
2015.20.12
