Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00013074Portrait of Paul Chenavard, from the series "Histoire des Artistes Vivants"
About the Artwork
Édouard Baldus, best known as an architectural photographer, took this portrait as an illustration for the entry on painter Paul Chenavard in Théophile Silvestre’s History of Living Artists French and Foreign: Studies after Nature. This ambitious and innovative project featured lengthy biographies of contemporary artists illustrated with photographic portraits. Some entries also had photographic reproductions of the artist’s paintings—possibly the first time that occurred in a publication. The books attest to the importance and interconnectedness of contemporary art and photography in the mid-1800s.
Inscriptions
Written with letter press on recto: "HISTORE DES ARTISTES VIVANTS/Rue et place Louvois, 2/Photographie d'après nature par Edouard Baldus/CHENAVARD (PAUL)/Né à Lyon le 9 décembre 1808"
Provenance
[Mark Pagneux, Paris]; [Charles Isaacs]
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
- c. 1852
- Medium
- albumen print from wet collodion negative
- Dimensions
- Image: 17.6 x 13.2 cm (6 15/16 x 5 3/16 in.); Paper: 46.6 x 31.8 cm (18 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- Photograph
- Department
- Photography
- Credit line
- Alma Kroeger Fund
- Accession no.
- 2006.164
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