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Gnarled Oak Tree near l'Epine Crossroads
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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- 1849–1852
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- fc860440-e257-4b63-bbfe-649842dbb89e
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The relatively large number of existing prints of this oddly shaped oak tree suggest that this was one of Gustave Le Gray's most popular forest views. The tree was a well-known curiosity among Barbizon painters, who lived at the edge of the forest at Fontainebleau--outside Paris--and who painted pure, naturalistic landscapes. Le Gray captured the fine details of the tree's bark and the soft moss covering a boulder at the foot of the tree, contrasting the tree's rough texture with that of velvety moss.
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