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Fontaine du Luxembourg (No. 61)
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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- 1860s
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- d463d403-8728-423f-a97b-ab2c2822e04a
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View of an elaborate overflowing fountain with a female sculpture on a pedestal in the center of an arched alcove.
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