Twenty-five-year-old Édouard Baldus arrived in Paris to study painting in 1838, shortly before Louis Daguerre first showed his magically precise photographic images to the world.
In Paris, the self-taught Baldus worked outside the École des Beaux-Arts and atelier system, but submitted work to each of the annual Salons of painting and sculpture in Paris from 1841 to 1851.
As a painter he met with little success and achieved no critical mention, but in the decade that followed, from 1851 to 1861, Baldus abandoned the easel and took up the camera, rose to the top of his new profession, won international critical acclaim, secured commissions from government ministries and captains of industry, and created a body of photographs now considered early masterpieces of the art.
(Images © The New York Public Library)
In Paris, the self-taught Baldus worked outside the École des Beaux-Arts and atelier system, but submitted work to each of the annual Salons of painting and sculpture in Paris from 1841 to 1851.
As a painter he met with little success and achieved no critical mention, but in the decade that followed, from 1851 to 1861, Baldus abandoned the easel and took up the camera, rose to the top of his new profession, won international critical acclaim, secured commissions from government ministries and captains of industry, and created a body of photographs now considered early masterpieces of the art.
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| Ile de la Cité, general view |
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| Panorama de la Cité |
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| Pont Royal and Louvre |
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| Hôtel de Ville |
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| Palais Royale |
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| Palais de Justice |
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| Louxembourg, Paris |
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| Hôtel des Invalides |
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| Panthéon |
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| Place de la Concorde |
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| Arc de Triomphe de l'Étoile |
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| Tour Saint-Jacques |
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| Notre-Dame, Paris |
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| St. Gervais, Paris |
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| St. Eustache, Paris |
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| Madeleine |
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| St. Étienne du Mont |
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| Saint Germain l' Auxerrois |
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| Panorama du Louvre |
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| Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel |
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| Eglise d' Issoir |
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| St. Vulfran à Abbeville |
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| Amiens |
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| Les Remparts d' Avignon |
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| Egl. de Brioude |
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| Maison Carreé à Nimes |
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| Arc antique à Orange |
(Images © The New York Public Library)
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