Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00000359Pavilion Richelieu, Louvre, Paris
About the Artwork
In 1854, Édouard Baldus and two other artists were commissioned to record construction of the New Louvre, one of the grandest of Napoleon III’s building projects. New wings joined the Louvre Palace, started in the late 1100s, to the Tuileries Palace, begun in 1564. The Pavilion Richelieu, completed shortly before this photograph was taken, originally housed governmental offices and only became part of the Louvre Museum in 1993. Berthe Morisot and her sister, Edma, were in the museum copying a painting by Flemish artist Peter Paul Rubens when they first met Édouard Manet, sometime between 1865 and 1868.
Inscriptions
Written in negative: "No. 79; E. Baldus"; in black ink on recto: "E. Baldus [signed]"
Exhibition history
France at the Dawn of Photography. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 4, 2009-January 24, 2010). France in the Time of Manet and Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 7, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889)
- Date
- 1856–57
- Medium
- salted paper print, albumenized, from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.); Matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Accession no.
- 1991.160
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