Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris

Cleveland Museum of Art

Arc de Triomphe de l'Etoile, Paris

Édouard Baldus

Date
c. 1860s
Medium
albumen print from collodion negative
Culture
France, 19th century
Department
Photography
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

The construction materials seen here in the foreground symbolize the fact that for three decades starting in 1854, Paris was a construction site as Baron Haussmann replaced the crooked streets and crumbling buildings of medieval Paris with a modern city. Its rational city plan featured broad avenues that radiated from key sites like the Arc de Triomphe. Completed in 1836, the Arc is dedicated to the armies of the French Revolution and the Second Empire and has gained additional symbolic force with each war fought by the French.

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