Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00012663Chemin de fer de Toulouse à Bayonne. Pont de l'Aran (en trois arches de 17m d'ouverture chacune). Situation des travaux au 21 juillet 1861
About the Artwork
Edouard Baldus, the most important French 19th-century architectural photographer, here reveals the process of constructing a bridge. In 1861 he was commissioned by the railway company that owned the principal route across southwest France to document the region’s landscape, towns, monuments, and railroad structures such as bridges and viaducts.
Provenance
?-2021: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY June 7, 2021: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889)
- Date
- 1861
- Medium
- albumen print from collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 31.1 x 43.2 cm (12 1/4 x 17 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Accession no.
- 2021.55
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