Gustave Le Gray
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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
Gustave Le Gray, Self-portrait, late 1850s
Self Portrait (c. 1851)
Château de Chenonceau (1851)
The Beech Tree (c. 1856)
Henri Le Secq
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Jean-Louis-Henri Le Secq des Tournelles was a French painter and photographer. After the French government made the daguerreotype open for public in 1839, Le Secq was one of the five photographers sel
Gustave Le Gray
…of nature such as Fontainebleau Forest, and buildings such as châteaux of the Loire Valley. He taught photography to students such as Charles Nègre, Henri Le Secq, Nadar, Olympe Aguado, and Maxime Du Camp. In 1851, he became one of the first five photographers hired for the Missions Héliographiques to document…
Portrait of Henri Le Secq (1848) by Gustave Le Gray
Strasbourg Cathedral
Large figures on the North porch, Chartres Cathedral