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Baldus, Édouard
(1813-1889)Vues de Paris en Photographie

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Fotografie des 19. – 21. Jahrhunderts (Katalog nur online verfügbar)
Auktionsdatum 29.11.2025

Vues de Paris en Photographie. 1855-1860. 26 albumen prints, mounted to album leaves. Each ca. 20 x 27 cm (31,5 x 42,5 cm). Each with the photographer's “E. Baldus” stamp below the image on the mount. Presented in contemporary full-leather folio album with gilt-stamped title “Vues de Paris en Photographie” and the arms of the City of Paris on the front board; spine with raised bands and gilt tooling.

A finely produced album comprising twenty-six large-format albumen prints of Parisian architecture and monuments by Édouard Baldus. Created between 1855 and 1860, at the height of Baldus’s career - when he was widely regarded as France’s leading architectural photographer - the album offers monumental views of Haussmann-era Paris, captured with remarkable clarity and compositional precision. The photographs span medieval, Napoleonic, and Second Empire structures, including Notre-Dame, the Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde, and the Louvre, as well as now-lost landmarks such as the Palais de l’Industrie, the Tuileries Palace, and the old Hôtel de Ville. Elegantly bound in a full leather folio with the gilt-stamped title and arms of the City of Paris, the volume exemplifies Baldus’s mission to preserve France’s architectural heritage while celebrating the modernization of the capital under Napoleon III. Complete and well-preserved examples of such albums are increasingly rare. – Corners of the album slightly bumped; some foxing on the cover page and small holes in the interleaf. A few pages slightly loose, with light foxing and fading, minor scuff marks, and traces of silver mirroring in the shadow areas of some prints; otherwise all prints with strong tones and in near excellent condition.