Arc de triomphe de l'Ètoile
Edouard Baldus
1860s
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
21.1 x 27.0 cm. (8 5/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
David Hunter McAlpin Fund, 1944
Accession Number
44.55.6
Tags
ArchitectureMonumentsArchesGates
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...