Works
Le Gray documented French monuments on a mission for the French government. He was a successful portrait photographer, capturing figures such as Napoleon III and Edward VII of the United Kingdom. He also became famous for his seascapes, or marine. From the twenty years that he spent in Cairo there are few works.
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“Piety practised in solitude, like the flower that blooms in the desert, may give its fragrance to the winds of heaven, and delight those unbodied spirits that survey the works of God and the actions of men; but it bestows no assistance upon earthly beings, and however free from taints of impurity, yet wants the sacred splendour of beneficence.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
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—Francis Picabia (1878–1953)