# Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris

- By: Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.214)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2021.214/2021.214_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Kids profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.