Fenton was a pioneering documentary photographer who captured military subjects and large scale troop movements in the 1850s, most notably during the Crimean War, using albumen prints to record historical military events with atmospheric landscape compositions very similar to Le Gray's Camp de Chalons work.

As a contemporary French photographer working in the same mid 19th century period, Nègre similarly pursued documentary subjects using albumen printing techniques, capturing figures in motion and large scale scenes with a strong sense of atmosphere and historical record keeping.

Baldus worked as an official French documentary photographer in the 1850s producing large format albumen prints that combined landscape and human activity for historical and governmental audiences, closely paralleling Le Gray's approach to capturing French national subjects with technical precision and atmospheric depth.