LOT DETAILS

Materials:

salt print from a waxed-paper negative

Measurements:

17.24 in. (43.80 cm.) (height) by 13.27 in. (33.70 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, titled 'Amiens' and numbered 'No. 42' by the photographer in the negative

Condition:

matted

Exhibited:

New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Photographs of Édouard Baldus: Landscapes and Monuments of France, October - December 1994, and traveling to: Montreal, Canadian Centre for Architecture, January - April 1995. Paris, Musée National des Monuments Français, May - August 1995.

Literature:

This print: Jill Quasha, The Quillan Collection of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Photographs (New York, 1991), pl. 28 Malcolm Daniel, The Photographs of Édouard Baldus (The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal, 1994, in conjunction with the exhibition), pl. 31. Another print of this image: Francis Dimond and Roger Taylor, Crown & Camera: The Royal Family and Photography, 1842-1910 (London, 1987), p. 123, #58.

Provenance:

The photographer to Léon Bourquelot. By descent to the Bourquelot family. Serge Clin, Versailles. Thackrey & Robertson, San Francisco. Acquired by the Quillan Company from the above, 1989.