Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris
Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889)
1855
- Medium
- albumen print
- Classification
- Photograph
- Dimensions
- Image: 28 x 21.8 cm (11 x 8 9/16 in.); Paper: 39.9 x 29.9 cm (15 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Kids profiles and older: it shows nature, places, still life or a children's book. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
