Village de Murols
1854, printed 1979
Medium
Salted paper print from paper negative
Dimensions
Image: 34.2 x 44.3 cm (13 7/16 x 17 7/16 in.) Sheet: 35.3 x 47.2 cm (13 7/8 x 18 9/16 in.)
Classification
Photographs
Department
Photographs
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Fund, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2009
Accession Number
2009.69
Tags
Art Historical Context
Édouard Baldus, a master of early French photography, captured *Village de Murols* in 1854, creating a salted paper print from a paper negative that vividly portrays a quaint rural landscape in central France. This image, later printed in 1979 by the Chicago Albumen Works, showcases the clustered stone houses and rolling terrain of the village of Murols, evoking the timeless charm of 19th-century provincial life. Measuring 34.2 x 44.3 cm, its expansive composition draws viewers into a serene, textured world where architecture harmonizes with nature. Baldus, renowned for his architectural prec...
About the Artist
Edouard Baldus|Chicago Albumen Works · 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...