{"id":60667,"date":"2022-10-21T14:15:21","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T13:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marclabarbe.com\/?page_id=60667"},"modified":"2026-06-04T09:56:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T08:56:38","slug":"une-oeuvre-peinte-par-gustave-le-gray","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marclabarbe.com\/en\/une-oeuvre-peinte-par-gustave-le-gray\/","title":{"rendered":"Gustave Le Gray (1820 \u2013 1884)
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Gustave Le Gray (1820 \u2013 1884)
\nPortrait de Madame G.L.
<\/i>Huile sur toile. Sign\u00e9e en bas \u00e0 droite et dat\u00e9e 1853.
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Jean Baptiste Gustave Le Gray est n\u00e9 en 1820 \u00e0 Villiers-le-Bel (d\u00e9partement du Val d\u2019Oise, France), fils unique de parents de la petite bourgeoisie. Si c\u2019est par le medium photographique et les am\u00e9liorations techniques qu\u2019il y a apport\u00e9 que Gustave Le Gray a connu la c\u00e9l\u00e9brit\u00e9, il demeure n\u00e9anmoins un \u00ab peintre de formation et de vocation[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em> \u00bb.  Apr\u00e8s avoir tourn\u00e9 le dos aux souhaits de son p\u00e8re de le voir devenir notaire, Gustave Le Gray devient en 1842 l\u2019\u00e9l\u00e8ve de Paul Delaroche (1797 \u2013 1856), professeur \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts de Paris, lui-m\u00eame form\u00e9 entre autres dans l\u2019atelier d\u2019Antoine Jean Gros (1771 \u2013 1835) et de Jacques Louis David (1748 – 1825).  Il part en Italie en 1843, et arrive \u00e0 Rome en 1844, ann\u00e9e durant laquelle il \u00e9pouse Palmira Maddalena Gertrude Leonardi en l\u2019\u00e9glise San Giacomo in Augusta. Le couple aura six enfants dont un seul, Romain, survivra \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge adulte, et vivra \u00e0 Paris de 1847 \u00e0 1860. En 1860, Gustave Le Gray quitte la France pour Palerme, en compagnie d\u2019Alexandre Dumas, puis voyagera ensuite \u00e0 Catane, Malte, Alexandrie, Beyrouth, Damas, avant de s\u2019\u00e9tablir au Caire, o\u00f9 il mourra en 1884.<\/p>\n


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L\u2019\u0153uvre peint de Gustave Le Gray demeure \u00e0 ce jour relativement confidentiel<\/strong>, et peu de toiles sont alors parvenues jusqu\u2019\u00e0 nous. En 2002, dans l\u2019ouvrage r\u00e9dig\u00e9 \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de l\u2019exposition monographique de l\u2019artiste, Sylvie Aubenas, Conservateur en chef au d\u00e9partement des estampes et de la photographie \u00e0 la Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale de France signalait encore qu\u2019\u00e0 cette date, aucun tableau n\u2019avait \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9[2]<\/a>.<\/p>

Gustave Le Gray, parall\u00e8lement \u00e0 son activit\u00e9 de photographe, n\u2019a pourtant jamais cess\u00e9 de peindre toute sa vie durant, \u00e0 Paris, ou en Orient. Les portraits ou les sc\u00e8nes orientalistes demeurent son sujet de pr\u00e9dilection. Alors qu\u2019il r\u00e9alise le Portrait de Madame GL<\/em> \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 33 ans, c\u2019est \u00e0 49 ans qu\u2019il ex\u00e9cutera sur commande du Pacha d\u2019\u00c9gypte celui de l\u2019Imp\u00e9ratrice Eug\u00e9nie. C\u2019est sous le titre Portrait de Madame GL<\/em> que notre huile sur toile a \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9sent\u00e9e au salon des artistes vivants en 1853, ann\u00e9e o\u00f9 parmi les quelques 1200 \u0153uvres[3]<\/a> s\u00e9lectionn\u00e9es par le jury sont pr\u00e9sent\u00e9s le c\u00e9l\u00e8bre Tepidarium<\/em>\u00a0de Th\u00e9odore Chass\u00e9riau (1819 \u2013 1856) la bataille des Cimbres<\/em>\u00a0de Fran\u00e7ois Joseph Heim (1787 \u2013 1865) ou encore le Daphnis et Chlo\u00e9<\/em> de Jean-L\u00e9on G\u00e9r\u00f4me (1824 \u2013 1904). La m\u00eame ann\u00e9e, Gustave Le Gray r\u00e9alise par ailleurs des vues photographiques du salon[4]<\/a>.<\/p>

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Haute de 125 cm et large de 95 cm, notre huile sur toile repr\u00e9sente une jeune femme dans un int\u00e9rieur.<\/p>

Son titre ne laisse pas de doute quant \u00e0 l\u2019identit\u00e9 du mod\u00e8le.\u00a0<\/strong>Les initiales \u00ab GL \u00bb peuvent se rapporter \u00e0 la fois \u00e0 \u00ab Madame Gustave Legray \u00bb (Legray s\u2019\u00e9crivant alors d\u2019un seul tenant) ou \u00e0 \u00ab\u00a0Madame Gertrude Leonardi\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0 Palmira Maddalena Gertrude Leonardi est assur\u00e9ment le mod\u00e8le de ce portrait. N\u00e9e le 23 mars 1923 \u00e0 Rome, elle a alors trente ans.<\/span><\/p>

La pr\u00e9sentation au salon de 1853<\/u>. Expos\u00e9e au salon en 1853 sous le num\u00e9ro \u00ab\u00a02794 \u00bb et la d\u00e9nomination \u00ab\u00a0Portrait de Mme G.L<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb, cette huile sur toile est dat\u00e9e de la m\u00eame ann\u00e9e au-dessus de la signature (Ill.13<\/em>). Elle demeure dans son cadre d\u2019origine.<\/strong> R\u00e9alis\u00e9 en bois et stuc dor\u00e9, moulur\u00e9, rainur\u00e9, et sculpt\u00e9 d\u2019une frise, le plus grand int\u00e9r\u00eat de ce cadre r\u00e9side sur son revers. Le haut comporte en effet l\u2019inscription de son num\u00e9ro de r\u00e9pertoire au salon<\/strong>, inscrit au crayon noir, permettant de confirmer d\u00e9finitivement son historique<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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[1]<\/a>\u00a0D\u2019apr\u00e8s les mots de Thomas Cazentre dans\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Les photographies de Gustave Le Gray\u00a0\u00bb,\u00a0Le Blog Gallica<\/em>, article publi\u00e9 le 1er<\/sup>\u00a0janvier 2013.<\/p>

[2]<\/a> Voir Gustave Le Gray, 1820-1884.<\/em>\u00a0[Exposition, Paris, Biblioth\u00e8que nationale de France, 19 mars-16juin 2002] \/ sous la direction de Sylvie Aubenas, Paris, BNF – Gallimard, 2002, page 13\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Nous ne savons rien de la peinture de Le Gray\u00a0: aucun tableau n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 identifi\u00e9 alors qu\u2019il en a produit toute sa vie<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0<\/p>

[3]<\/a>\u00a0 Voir\u00a0: Claude Vignon, Salon de 1853<\/em>, Dentu, Paris, 1853, page 54.<\/p>

[4]<\/a> Deux vues sont actuellement connues, toutes deux conserv\u00e9es au Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay sous les num\u00e9ros d\u2019inventaires PHO 2000 13 4 et PHO 2000 13 2.<\/p>

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