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Saint-Honorat, Prés d'Arles

Édouard BaldusLinkedCulture matchlcp-bf10e37b42fe

Date: 1853
Medium: salt print from waxed paper negative
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Photography
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 167911

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Two years after his initial photographic trip to Provence, Baldus returned in 1853 to again document some of the region’s most imposing classical and medieval architectural monuments. His genius both as an architectural photographer and as a printer is easily witnessed in this extraordinary photograph taken in Arles. It depicts an ancient cemetery, the Alyscamps, in the foreground, with the unfinished Romanesque Church of Saint Honorat, dominated by its distinctive two-story bell tower, in the background. On this photographic campaign, this image was the rare occasion when Baldus succeeded in his desire to combine a picturesque aesthetic with an interest in the medieval past. Thirty-five years later, in the fall of 1888, Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh made several paintings of the Alyscamps. Dudley P. Allen Fund 2009.5

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Credit line: Dudley P. Allen Fund
Provenance: Charles Nègre; Collection André Jammes, Paris; Sotheby's Paris, Lot 78, November 15, 2008; Charles Isaacs, New York; Cleveland Museum of Art