Amiens
1855
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- 50.8 × 61 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192954
This rare, majestic, and sweeping view of the cathedral of Amiens, France, is an outstanding example of Baldus’s genius for photographing architecture. Placing his large view camera at an elevated vantage point, he recorded the dominating and central position of the church, which was undergoing restoration, as it towered above the surrounding village; open landscape is captured in the distance. In this ambitious composition, he carefully rendered the scene’s textural detail, spatial complexity, and subtlety of light. Compare this distant view with the close-up detail of a stone sculpture in L…
Provenance
and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1986.15
Registry history
- 1855 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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