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Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris

1855

Édouard Baldus

(French, 1813–1889)
Culture
France
Medium
gelatin silver print
Measurements
Image: 28 x 21.8 cm (11 x 8 9/16 in.); Paper: 39.9 x 29.9 cm (15 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb 2021.214
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Location
Not on view
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Did You Know?

Like many early photographers, Edouard Baldus began as a painter.

Description

Baldus took up photography in the 1840s and became renowned for his architectural views. In 1854, he was commissioned to record construction of the New Louvre, Emperor Napoleon III’s project to build wings that would join the Louvre and Tuileries Palaces and create a vast courtyard. You can enter that courtyard through the arch hidden from view here between the pairs of columns, where you will find the glass pyramid designed by I.M. Pei and completed in 1988.

Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris

1855

Édouard Baldus

(French, 1813–1889)
France

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