[Entrance to the Port of Boulogne]
Edouard Baldus
1855
![[Entrance to the Port of Boulogne] by Edouard Baldus](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/entrance-to-the-port-of-boulogne-266644.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
28.8 x 43.5 cm (11 5/16 x 17 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Louis V. Bell Fund, 1992
Accession Number
1992.5000
Tags
BoatsHarbors
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...