File:Soldier and Military Camel MET DP212795.jpg
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[edit]Gustave Le Gray: Soldier and Military Camel ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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artist QS:P170,Q982549 |
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Soldier and Military Camel |
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Description |
English: "Though he was the most influential and renowned photographer in France, Gustave Le Gray's expenses had far outpaced his revenues by early 1860. Fleeing his creditors, he closed his Paris studio, abandoned his wife and children, and set off on what was meant to be a few months' cruise on the rivers of Asia aboard Alexandre Dumas's ship Emma. Dumas detoured to Palermo to join Garibaldi, then headed to Malta, where, following an argument, he abandoned Le Gray and two others.
Le Gray and his companions made their way east to Cairo, where he set up a studio and enjoyed official commissions from the pasha of Egypt. This photograph is part of Le Gray's first commission, a series depicting a corps of military camels, some outfitted with artillery, soon to be dispatched to a campaign in the Sudan. Despite a subject matter radically different from any he had tackled before, the image is marked by the artist's eye for telling detail and grand sense of theatricality. Camel, soldier, and equipment are spread across the page, as if on stage before a painted backdrop, ready to take their places in an updated production of Aida." Source of the description |
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Date |
1866 date QS:P571,+1866-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | Albumen silver print from glass negative | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Image : height: 30.7 cm (12 in); width: 24.2 cm (9.5 in) dimensions QS:P2048,30.7U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,24.2U174728 Mount: height: 43.4 cm (17 in); width: 37.7 cm (14.8 in)dimensions QS:P2048,43.4U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,37.7U174728 |
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236 |
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Accession number |
2002.257 |
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Place of creation | Egypt | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Object history | (Sold, Beaussant Lefèvre, Paris, December 13, 1995, lot 150); [Robert Koch, Oakland, CA]; [Hans P. Kraus, Jr. Inc, October, 2000] | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Exhibition history | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Johnson Gallery, Selections from the Collection 34," February 25, 2003–June 22, 2003. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Credit line | Purchase, Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts, 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Inscriptions | Facsimile signature stamp in black ink on mount below photograph recto: "Gustave Le Gray". | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Source/Photographer | Metropolitan Museum of Art, online collection (The Met object ID 284986) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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- Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Photographs by Gustave Le Gray in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Military use of camels
- Department of Photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- 1860s photographs of Egypt
- Portrait photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Albumen prints in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Alfred Stieglitz Society Gifts