[Church of Saint-Honorat, Arles]
Edouard Baldus
ca. 1864
![[Church of Saint-Honorat, Arles] by Edouard Baldus](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/church-of-saint-honorat-arles-267018.webp)
Medium
Albumen silver print from glass negative
Dimensions
7.0 x 14.2 cm. (2 3/4 x 5 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Pierre-Marc Richard, 1994
Accession Number
1994.179.2
Tags
ArchitectureChurches
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...