Pavilion Richelieu, Louvre, Paris
1856–57
- Medium
- salted paper print, albumenized, from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- 44.5 × 34.3 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-190414
In 1854, Édouard Baldus and two other artists were commissioned to record construction of the New Louvre, one of the grandest of Napoleon III’s building projects. New wings joined the Louvre Palace, started in the late 1100s, to the Tuileries Palace, begun in 1564. The Pavilion Richelieu, completed shortly before this photograph was taken, originally housed governmental offices and only became part of the Louvre Museum in 1993. Berthe Morisot and her sister, Edma, were in the museum copying a painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens when they first met Édouard Manet, sometime between 1865…
Provenance
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1991.160
Registry history
- 1856–57 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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