Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris
1855
- Medium
- albumen print
- Dimensions
- 28 × 21.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-193653
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.
Provenance
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb, 2021.214
Registry history
- 1855 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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