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Gustave Le Gray — Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau
Gustave Le Gray

Tree, Forest of Fontainebleau

1856

Le Gray's forest study exemplifies the Barbizon school's influence on early photography, using the albumen process to achieve painterly effects in natural landscape documentation.

Medium
Albumen print

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