Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries, motifs de décorations tirés des constructions éxécutées au nouveau Louvre et au palais des Tuileries ..., tomes I / II
Edouard Baldus|Hector Lefeul
1850s–70s
Medium
Photogravures
Classification
Books
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of George L. Morse, 1923, transferred from the Library
Accession Number
1994.128.1–.2
Tags
Female NudesPutti
About the Artist
Edouard Baldus|Hector Lefeul · 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...