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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Baldus, Édouard-Denis Creator Nationality: European; French Creator Role: Artist Creator Dates/Places: 1813 - 1889 Biography: Édouard Baldus French, b. Prussia, 1813 - 1889The large and regal prints made by Édouard-Denis Baldus are widely agreed to be among the finest photographic images ever produced. After serving as an artillery officer in the Prussian army, Baldus left his native country for France during the 1830s to become a painter. He exhibited his paintings of religious subjects, portraits, and genre scenes in the Paris Salons from 1841 - 51 and was naturalized as a French citizen in 1849, the same year his interests turned to photography. Combining his training in painting with an inquisitive, inventive technical expertise, Baldus produced a body of work of exceptional quality and interest. His subjects included architecture, landscape, and engineering feats. In 1851 the Commission des monuments historiques selected him for the Missions héliographique?a government project that sponsored the photographing of endangered classical and medieval architecture in France. For this important series Baldus produced views of Burgundy, Provence, and the Dauphiné, and the following year he completed a commission for the Ministry of the Interior. In 1855 he began his photography of railroads, some of his most distinctive work. A copy of his album recording the line between Paris and Boulogne was presented to Queen Victoria. He also documented the flooding of the Rhone, as well as construction of the new Louvre and other Paris views. A founding member of the Société héliographique and a member of the Société française de photographie (1857), Baldus exhibited his photographs widely in London, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Brussels, and Paris and won numerous medals of award. A master printer, he produced combination prints in the early 1850s, frequently retouching his images with pencil and ink. His best work appears most often in specially assembled albums -- such as Les principaux Monuments de la France reproduits en héliogravure par E. Baldus, published in 1875 from plates drawn from earlier negatives. Today, his work continues to be muchsought after and to set a standard by which other photographers are judged. T.W.F. Gender: M Creator Birth Place: Prussia Creator Name-CRT: Édouard Baldus Title: Eglise d'Auvers Title Type: Foreign Title: Church at Auvers Title Type: Primary View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1855 Creation End Date: 1855 Creation Date: 1855 Object Type: Photographs Classification Term: Photography Materials and Techniques: salted paper print from waxed paper negative Dimensions: Image: 33.4cm x 43.7cm Inscriptions: Written in in black ink on recto: "Eglise d'Auvers"; in pencil: "X" AMICA Contributor: The Cleveland Museum of Art Owner Location: Cleveland, Ohio, USA ID Number: 1992.120 Credit Line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund Rights: http://www.clemusart.com/museum/disclaim2.html Context: Édouard Baldus's prodigious and compelling documentation of French historic buildings earned him recognition as the first great French architectural photographer. This image of Notre Dame at Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, is from a sequence of fifty views of the railroad stations and principal sites along the route between Boulogne-sur-mer and Paris. This Gothic-style village church was once a chapel for a manor house that has since disappeared. AMICA ID: CMA_.1992.120 AMICA Library Year: 1998 Media Metadata Rights: Copyright, The Cleveland Museum of Art AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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