Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884) Camp de Châlons:... Lot 301

Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820-1884) Camp de Châlons: maneuvers: artillery and Imperial Guard mounted chasseurs, 1857 Vintage print on albumen paper, 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: Maneuvers: Artillery and Mounted Chasseurs of the Imperial Guard"). Condition: composition where the halo formed by the lens reinforces the aesthetic power of the image. Oblique chemical trace, visible on the image and on the back. Literature: - "A visit to the Châlons camp under the Second Empire, photographs by Messieurs Le Gray, Prévot..." Collectif, Musée de l'Armée, Paris, 1996. Image reproduced on page 51 and notice on page 113; - Gustave Le Gray", BnF - Gallimard, 2002. Illustration 161, page 137 and catalog 154, page 370.