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Lecture Gustave Le Gray

À la recherche des techniques perdues
Re-creating Gustave Le Gray’s 19th century photographic seascapes

In 2019, the Rijksmuseum commissioned photographer Christian Klant, an expert of the historical wet-plate collodion negative process, to study and re-enact the techniques that Gustave Le Gray must have used for producing his famous seascapes in the 1850s. This is the first time that a practitioner, and not a photo historian, tackled Le Gray’s secrets. During the lecture the Rijksmuseum will organise on 27 November, Christian Klant will present his research for the first time.

About Gustave Le Gray’s Seascapes

Gustave Le Gray became famous throughout Europe for his large, atmospheric pictures of coasts and ocean views in the 1850s. Travelling from Normandy to the Mediterranean, Le Gray set up his large camera and mobile darkroom on cliffs and beaches and photographed straight into the sun. Le Gray’s advanced techniques allowed him to capture impressive clouds and crashing waves with short exposure times, both of which were near impossible with the common photographic materials of the time, which were not equally sensitive to all colours and required relatively long exposure times.

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Time: 15:30 – 17:15
Date: Thursday November 27th 2025
Location: Rijksmuseum

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