id:			155857
accession number:	1991.160
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Pavilion Richelieu, Louvre, Paris, 1856–1857. Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889). Salted paper print, albumenized, from wet collodion negative; image: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1991.160

title:				Pavilion Richelieu, Louvre, Paris
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creation date:			1856–1857
creation date earliest:		1856
creation date latest:		1857
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creditline:			Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	salted paper print, albumenized, from wet collodion negative
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889)  - artist
Édouard Baldus French, b. Prussia, 1813 - 1889

The large and regal prints made by Édouard-Denis Baldus are widely agreed to be among the finest photographic images ever produced. After serving as an artillery officer in the Prussian army, Baldus left his native country for France during the 1830s to become a painter. He exhibited his paintings of religious subjects, portraits, and genre scenes in the Paris Salons from 1841 - 51 and was naturalized as a French citizen in 1849, the same year his interests turned to photography.
	Combining his training in painting with an inquisitive, inventive technical expertise, Baldus produced a body of work of exceptional quality and interest. His subjects included architecture, landscape, and engineering feats. In 1851 the Commission des monuments historiques selected him for the Missions héliographique—a government project that sponsored the photographing of endangered classical and medieval architecture in France. For this important series Baldus produced views of Burgundy, Provence, and the Dauphiné, and the following year he completed a commission for the Ministry of the Interior. In 1855 he began his photography of railroads, some of his most distinctive work. A copy of his album recording the line between Paris and Boulogne was presented to Queen Victoria. He also documented the flooding of the Rhone, as well as construction of the new Louvre and other Paris views.
	A founding member of the Société héliographique and a member of the Société française de photographie (1857), Baldus exhibited his photographs widely in London, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Brussels, and Paris and won numerous medals of award. A master printer, he produced combination prints in the early 1850s, frequently retouching his images with pencil and ink. His best work appears most often in specially assembled albums -- such as Les principaux Monuments de la France reproduits en héliogravure par E. Baldus, published in 1875 from plates drawn from earlier negatives. Today, his work continues to be much sought after and to set a standard by which other photographers are judged. T.W.F.
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measurements: Image: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
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	inscription:	Written in negative: "No. 79; E. Baldus"; in black ink on recto: "E. Baldus [signed]"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		France at the Dawn of Photography
	opening date:   2009-10-04T00:00:00
	<i>France at the Dawn of Photography</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* {'description': 'The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/04/2009 - 01/24/2010); "France at the Dawn of Photography"', 'opening_date': '2009-10-04T00:00:00'}

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CITATIONS

	Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P. 91
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IMAGES

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print:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.160/1991.160_print.jpg
full:	https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1991.160/1991.160_full.tif