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[Detail of the Decoration of the Second Floor, Pavillon de Turgot, Louvre, Paris]

Édouard Baldus

Date: 1852–1857
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: French
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

Detail of an ornamental architecture element of the building taken separately on a white background.

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Édouard Baldus

French Photographer · 1813–1889

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"[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