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["Boileau", Statue by Gabriel Bernard Seurre, Decoration of the Louvre, Paris]
Creator
Édouard BaldusFrench Photographer · 1813–1889
All works by this person →"[E]veryone knows [Mr.] Baldus," a reviewer wrote in 1859. By the mid-1850s, Édouard-Denis Baldus was the most successful photographer in France and at the height of his career. He began as a painter, turning to photography in 1849 when paper negatives were just becoming popular. Throughout much of his life, he listed himself in city directories as peintre photographe (painter photographer), in re
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- 1852–1857
- Medium
- Salted paper print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 0173a978-d9cc-449f-bd4c-e50a9200e3f5
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A statue of a man in historical attire holding a document.
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Image of a sculpture of a man with curly hair.
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