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Solar Effect in the Clouds-Ocean

Gustave Le Gray · 1856/57

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Artist

Gustave Le Gray
French, 1820–1884

Date

1856/57

Type

Photograph

Medium

Albumen print, from the album "Vistas del Mar"

Size

Image/paper: 31.1 × 39.7 cm (12 1/4 × 15 11/16 in.); Album page: 50.8 × 64.3 cm (20 × 25 3/8 in.)

Place

France

Period

19th century

Main colour

Brown · lightness 49, colourfulness 18

Art Institute of Chicago, Hugh Edwards Fund. Museum record. Public domain: the museum's is_public_domain field read true when we last checked (2026-10-25); image released under CC0. Licence rules