Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884) Châlons camp:... Lot 300

Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884) Châlons camp: maneuvers: Imperial Guard cavalry, 1857 Albumen print from a collodion glass negative. Height 17.6 Width 21.7 cm. Provenance: Val-de-Loire estate, several generations old. Gustave Le Gray, 1857. An albumen print of a collodion glass plate negative entitled "Camp de Châlons : manœuvres : cavalerie de la Garde impériale" ("Châlons Military Camp: Maneuvres: Imperial Guard Cavalry"). A remarkable composition in which the halo formed by the lens reinforces the aesthetic power of the image. Literature : - "Une visite au camp de Châlons sous le Second Empire, photographs by Messieurs Le Gray, Prévot...". Collectif, Musée de l'Armée, Paris, 1996. Image reproduced on page 51 and leaflet on page 113. - Gustave Le Gray", BnF - Gallimard, 2002. Illustration 162 page 137 and catalog 152 page 369.