EDOUARD-DENIS BALDUS

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EDOUARD-DENIS BALDUS

'Vues des Tuileries et Louvre Paris', late 1850s - early 1860s

Album of thirty-four albumen prints, two apparently from paper negatives, four signed E. Baldus, one of these numbered and two titled in the negatives, mounted one per page, seventeen with letterpress title and number on mounts, thirteen with manuscript title on mounts, eleven with letterpress photographer's credit and nineteen with photographer's facsimile signature on mounts, numbered in pencil 1 - 16 (Tuileries and Louvre) and 1 - 18 (Paris) with marbled blank between, tissue guards, marbled end papers, red morocco-backed marbled boards, titled in gilt on spine, lge. folio.

Literature

IMP/GEH, This Edifice is Colossal, no. 72 (illus.); IMP/GEH, The Era of the French Calotype, pl. 67; Bibliothèque Nationale, Regards sur la Photographie en France au XIXe siècle, no. 10 (illus., there trimmed); Stills Gallery, Mid 19th Century French Photography, no. 7 (illus.)

Lot Essay

The majority of the negatives date from circa 1856 - circa 1859. It seems likely however that the album was compiled and many if not all of the prints made in the early 1860s. See also lot for a companion volume of Spanish architectural subjects including one French subject by Baldus.

Titles of plates are as follows:

Palais des Tuileries No. 31 11 x 17 in.
Louvre No. 107 12 3/8 x 17 in.
Place Napoléon (Louvre) 13¼ x 16 3/8 in.
Pavillon Sully, Louvre 16 5/8 x 12 5/8 in.
Pavillon Richelieu, Louvre 17 x 13 in.
Pavillon Richelieu No. 76 13 3/8 x 17¼ in.
Pavillon Colbert No. 48 17 x 13¼ in.
Pavillon Turgot No. 78 17¼ x 13 3/8 in.
Pavillon [de l'Horloge] Louvre 17 x 13¼ in.
Porte de la Bibliothèque No. 106 17 3/8 x 13¼ in.
Partie des Tuileries - Louvre (Façade vers
la Seine) 13 x 17¼ in.
Détail Porte Bibliothèque - Rue Rivoli 17¼ x 12 5/8 in.
Pavillon du Louvre (Rue Rivoli) 16 x 13 in.
Partie du Louvre 12 7/8 x 16 3/8 in.
Ancienne Bibliothèque No. 75 16½ x 12 7/8 in.
Pavillon de Rohan 16 5/8 x 12 7/8 in.
[Panorama de Paris] 11 x 17 in.
Hôtel de Ville No. 14 13 3/8 x 17 1/8 in.
Place de la Concorde No. 35 10½ x 16 5/8 in.
La Madeleine No. 29 13 1/8 x 17 1/8 in.
Notre Dame No. 34 17 x 13 in.
[Notre Dame from the Seine] 13¾ x 17¼ in.
Eglise des Augustins Paris 16 x 12 5/8 in.
Saint Augustin No. 56 12 3/8 x 16 3/8 in.
Eglise de la Trinité Paris 16 1/8 x 12¾ in.
Eglise Ste. Clotilde Paris 16 x 12 7/8 in.
Sainte-Clotilde Détail No. 63 13 x 16¾ in.
Luxembourg Paris No. 93 11 x 17 in.
Sainte Chapelle No. 38 16 5/8 x 13 in.
Les Invalides No. 25 17¼ x 13¼ in.
Panthéon Paris 12 7/8 x 16¼ in.
Arc de l'Etoile 12 x 15¾ in.
[Détail Le Départ, Arc de Triomphe] 16½ x 12 in.
[Détail l'Apothéose de Napoléon] 15¾ x 11 5/8 in.

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