[Amphitheater, Nîmes]
ca. 1853
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Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Overall: 12 3/8 × 15 3/16 in. (31.5 × 38.5 cm)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Joyce F. Menschel, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2019
Accession Number
2019.348.3
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About the Artist
Edouard Baldus · 1813–1889
Édouard-Denis Baldus (1813–1889), born in Grünebach, Prussia, moved to Paris in 1838 at age twenty-five to study painting outside the École des Beaux-Arts and atelier system. Trained initially as a painter, draughtsman, and lithographer, he exhibited at the Paris Salons from 1841 to 1851 without notable recognition. Around 1849, Baldus pivoted to photography, embracing William Henry Fox Talbot's p...