[Roman Arch at Orange]
1851
![[Roman Arch at Orange] by Edouard Baldus](https://images.artheonmuseum.org/met/ph/thumb/roman-arch-at-orange-266282.webp)
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
35.3 x 26.2 cm (13 7/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, and Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1990
Accession Number
1990.1127
Tags
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...