Photo of Gustave Le Gray, Pavillon Mollien, 1859

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Artist



Description	French photographer and painter
Date of birth/death	30 August 1820	30 July 1884
Location of birth/death	Villiers-le-Bel near Paris, France	Cairo
Authority control	: Q982549 VIAF: 120733584 ISNI: 0000 0001 1701 3877 ULAN: 500000537 LCCN: n86862125 GND: 119136422 WorldCat

Title

Paris. Palais du Louvre, pavillon Mollien

Description

English: Standing opposite a newly built pavilion of the Louvre, Gustave Le Gray made this photograph when the sun's position allowed him to best capture the details of the heavily ornamented facade, from the fluted columns on the ground level to the figurative group on the nearest gable. Paving stones lead the viewer's eye directly to the corner of the pavilion, where the sunlit facade is further highlighted beside an area blanketed in shadow.
Though the extensive art collections of the Louvre had first been opened to the public in 1793, during the French Revolution, it was not until 1848 that the museum became the property of the state. Le Gray's image shows the exuberance of the architecture undertaken shortly thereafter, during the reign of Napoléon III, when large sections of the building housed government offices.

Date

1859

Medium

Albumen print

Dimensions

Height: 36.7 cm (14.4 in). Width: 47.9 cm (18.9 in).

Current location

Getty Center

	Native name	Getty Center
	Parent institution	J. Paul Getty Museum
	Location	Los Angeles
	Coordinates	34° 04′ 39″ N, 118° 28′ 30″ W
	Established	1997
	Website	https://www.getty.edu/museum/
	Authority control	: Q29247 VIAF: 133364221 GND: 10081052-4 SUDOC: 050172751 BNF: 13340183q

Accession number

90.XM.72

Inscriptions

Markings: Recto: photographer's wet stamp in red ink in lower right corner of print: "Gustave LeGray"

Source/Photographer

The Getty Center, Object 70191

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