# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gustave-le-gray
# Generated: 2026-08-13T16:01:07.637Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gustave-le-gray"
name: "Gustave Le Gray"
slug: "gustave-le-gray"
description: "Jean-Baptiste Gustave Le Gray was a French painter, draughtsman, sculptor, print-maker, and photographer. He has been called \"the most important French photographer of the nineteenth century\" because of his technical innovations, his instruction of other noted photographers, and \"the extraordinary imagination he brought to picture making.\" He was an important contributor to the development of the wax paper negative."
tagline: "French photographer (1820–1884)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Autoportrait_Gustave_Le_Gray%2C_cropped.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1820-08-30"
deathDate: "1884-07-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.870967741935483
  historical:           15.97966533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump