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Gustave Le Gray: Mollien Pavilion, the Louvre  wikidata:Q18627445 reasonator:Q18627445
Artist
Gustave Le Gray  (1820–1884)  wikidata:Q982549
 
Gustave Le Gray
Alternative names
Jean-Baptiste-Gustave Le Gray; Jean Baptiste Gustave Le Gray; J. B. Gustave Le Gray; Gustave Legray; Jean Baptiste Gustave Legray; Gustave le Gray; Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray
Description French photographer and painter
Date of birth/death 30 August 1820 Edit this at Wikidata 30 July 1884
Location of birth/death Villiers-le-Bel near Paris, France Cairo
Work period 1860 Edit this at Wikidata–1884 Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q982549
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Title
Paris. Palais du Louvre, pavillon Mollien
Object type photograph Edit this at Wikidata
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
date QS:P571,+1859-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Albumen print
Dimensions height: 36.7 cm (14.4 in); width: 47.9 cm (18.8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,36.7U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,47.9U174728
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
90.XM.72
Inscriptions Markings: Recto: photographer's wet stamp in red ink in lower right corner of print: "Gustave LeGray"
References J. Paul Getty Museum object ID: 104JRP Edit this at Wikidata
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The Getty Center, Object 70191

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