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Church at Auvers

1855

Édouard Baldus

(French, 1813–1889)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
salted paper print from waxed paper negative
Measurements
Image: 33.4 x 43.7 cm (13 1/8 x 17 3/16 in.); Matted: 55.9 x 66 cm (22 x 26 in.)
Credit Line
Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1992.120
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print

Description

Baldus’s prodigious and compelling documentation of French historic buildings earned him recognition as one of the first great French architectural photographers. This image of Notre-Dame at Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, is from a sequence of 50 views of the railroad stations and principal sites along the route between Boulogne-sur-Mer and Paris. This Gothic-style village church was once a chapel for a manor house that has since disappeared. Almost 35 years after Baldus’s composition, and only a short time before his own suicide, Vincent van Gogh painted a large, bold canvas of the church’s apse and bell tower.
A horizontally oriented salted paper print depicts a massive stone church with a square tower, positioned behind a high stone wall. Arched buttresses line the building's left side, while a winding dirt road fills the shadowy foreground. To the right, tall, thin trees stand beside a long building. Bright light from the left casts deep shadows across the textured masonry, highlighting the church's weathered surfaces against a pale sky.

Church at Auvers

1855

Édouard Baldus

(French, 1813–1889)
France, 19th century

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