Edouard Denis BALDUS (1813-1889). Viviers, 1861.... Lot 21

Edouard Denis BALDUS (1813-1889). Viviers, 1861. Original salted-aluminum paper print mounted on card, 31.2 x 43 cm. Signed E. Baldus and captioned with a black wet stamp on the mounting board. Baldus PLM 1861. Each "Paris à Lyon à la Méditerranée" print from 1861, was commissioned by the Board of Directors of the Southern Region of the PLM railway company. These photographs are considered icons of nineteenth-century historical architectural photography. Bibliography: Malcolm Daniel, Edouard Baldus photographe, Metropolitain Museum of Art New York, 1994), Canadian Center for Architecture (Montreal, 1995), Musée des monuments Français (Paris, 1995), La Photographie en 100 chefs-d'œuvre, BnF, 2012.