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Gustave Le Gray
The Great Wave, Sète1857

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Artist or Maker: Gustave Le Gray
France, 1820-1884
Title: The Great Wave, Sète
Place Made: France
Date Made: 1857
Medium: Albumen silver print
Dimensions: Image: 13 3/8 × 16 7/16 in. (34 × 41.8 cm) Primary support: 13 3/8 × 16 7/16 in. (34 × 41.8 cm) Secondary support: 20 15/16 × 26 15/16 in. (53.2 × 68.5 cm) Mat: 24 × 28 in. (60.96 × 71.12 cm)
Credit Line: The Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection, gift of The Annenberg Foundation and Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin
Accession Number: M.2008.40.1284
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Selected Bibliography: Salvesen, Britt. See the Light: Photography, Perception, Cognition: the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.