Lot 80
  • 80

Édouard Baldus (1813-1889)

Estimate
12,000 - 15,000 EUR
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Description

  • Édouard Baldus
  • Paris, Place de la Concorde, 1853
Négatif sur papier ciré. Tampon sec  de collection 'P.G.' apposé postérieurement. Avec épreuve moderne tirée par Joel Snyder.

Provenance

Collection Fortuné-Joseph Petiot-Groffier

Exhibited

Philadelphie, Philadelphia Museum of Art, French Primitive Photography, 1969

Literature

André Jammes, French Primitive Photography, Philadelphie, 1969, no. 36
André Jammes/Eugenia Parry Janis, The Art of French Calotype, with a Critical Dictionary of Photographers, 1845-1870, Princeton, 1983, ill. pl. LX (épreuve positive moderne)

Condition

Negative: The upper right corner with a tear; the surface is slightly rubbed in parts; with a very slight horizontal fold at the center.
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