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Baldus, Édouard
(1813-1889)Vues de Paris en Photographie

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 28.11.2026

Vues de Paris en Photographie. 1850s-1860s. 26 albumen prints, mounted to album leaves. Each ca. 20 x 27 cm or reverse (mounts 31,5 x 42,5 cm). Each with the photographer’s “E. Baldus” stamp below the image on the mount. Bound in a contemporary full-leather folio album, the front board gilt-stamped “VUES DE PARIS / EN PHOTOGRAPHIE” around the arms of the City of Paris; spine with raised bands and gilt tooling.

A finely produced album comprising 26 large-format albumen prints of Parisian architecture and monuments by Édouard Baldus. Made in the 1850s and 1860s, at the height of Baldus’ career - when he was widely regarded as France’s leading architectural photographer - the album presents monumental views of Paris during its transformation under Napoleon III, captured with remarkable clarity and compositional precision. The photographs range from medieval and royal monuments to the architecture of the Second Empire, including Notre-Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde and the Louvre, as well as now-lost structures, such as the Palais de l’Industrie and the old Hôtel de Ville. The gilt title and City arms identify the volume as a prestige photographic record of the capital; a closely comparable album under the same title is preserved at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.