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Route de Chailly, Fontainebleau
Creator
Gustave Le GrayFrench Photographer · 1820–1884
All works by this person →Though he was trained as a painter, Gustave Le Gray made his mark in the emerging medium of photography. An experimenter and technical innovator, Le Gray pioneered the use of the paper negative in France and developed a waxed-paper negative that produced sharper-focus prints. In 1851 he began to use collodion on glass negatives, which further increased the clarity of his images. He became one of t
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- 1856
- Medium
- Albumen silver print from paper and glass negatives
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 3103c42e-4ef3-4393-bfcf-7399c41cd889
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With aesthetic guidebooks and discreetly painted arrows and numbers on the trees and rocks to direct the visitor along its paths, the Forest of Fontainebleau attracted many artists, particularly those of the Barbizon landscape school, as well as vacationing Parisians, in the mid-nineteenth century. Gustave Le Gray, evidently influenced by the Barbizon painters, made many studies of Fontainebleau's foliage; here he focused on a road, representing the human intrusion in the natural landscape. The road cuts a broad swath through the forest, where the lushly dense foliage was abruptly interrupted to accommodate the needs of travelers.
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