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View of Ste-Adrese Beach with the Dumont Baths
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About this work
One of the pioneering masters of French landscape photography, Gustave Le Gray shows us the bathing establishments and tourist hotels that dominated the waterfront of this town on the coast of Normandy. Monet focused instead on the more picturesque and timeless beach and fishing boats. Le Gray’s image is distinctly rooted in the present—that is, the present of 1856—in a way that seems shockingly modern.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineView of Ste-Adrese Beach with the Dumont Baths, 1856. Gustave Le Gray (French, 1820–1884). Albumen print from collodion negative; image: 30.8 x 39.1 cm (12 1/8 x 15 3/8 in.); paper: 30.8 x 39.1 cm (12 1/8 x 15 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, 2022.35
