Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris (1855): Art, History and Details

Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris (1855) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Baldus took up photography in the 1840s and became renowned for his architectural views. In 1854, he was commissioned to record construction of the New Louvre, Emperor Napoleon III’s project to build wings that would join the Louvre and Tuileries Palaces and create a vast courtyard.

Object facts

• Title: Louvre, Façade rue de Rivoli, Paris
• Date: 1855
• Creator attribution: Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889)
• Culture: France
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print
• Dimensions: Image: 28 x 21.8 cm (11 x 8 9/16 in.); Paper: 39.9 x 29.9 cm (15 11/16 x 11 3/4 in.)
• Collection: PH - French 19th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 2021.214

A detail from the museum

Like many early photographers, Edouard Baldus began as a painter.

Collection credit

Gift of William and Margaret Lipscomb

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.