Artist Édouard Baldus, French, 1813-1889
Title
  • Vendome Column, Paris
Date between 1860 and 1870
Medium albumen print from collodion on glass negative
Dimensions Image: 10 3/8 × 7 1/8 inches (26.4 × 18.1 cm)
Mount: 16 1/2 × 12 3/4 inches (41.9 × 32.4 cm)
Credit Line Gift of P. L. Barter
Accession Number F46.27
Department Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Not On View
Signed Signed on mount, lower right, facsimile signature stamp: E. Baldus
Inscriptions Inscribed on mount, recto, lower right, in pencil: Column Vendome
On mount, verso, lower left, stamped in purple ink: DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS | REFERENCE LIBRARY
On mount, verso, lower left, below purple stamp, in pencil: France. Paris. Columns | (Vendome) | g. P.L. Barter 8-2-46
P. L. Barter.
1946-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
Barr, Nancy. Picturing Paris, 1850 to the Present: Photographs from the Permanent Collection. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1995, p. 4 (ill.), p. 9.