• Édouard Baldus (photographer)

Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries. Motifs de décorations

1869-1871

Album containing 100 photogravures made from photographs by Baldus following a special process of his own, that would restore them on the reverse side. Malcolm Daniel writes: "Baldus's Louvre photographs found their final incarnation in a gravure publication 'Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries'. The three volumes in this set largely parallel the albums that Baldus had made earlier for the Minister of State; again the majority of the images are of sculptural and ornamental details from the New Louvre, but statuary and ornament from the Tuileries Palace and Gardens are also included. The first edition of the 'Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries', published by Baldus himself, was offered for sale in fascicles beginning in late 1869, and the series was completed by the end of 1871. Two volumes, each with 100 plates, focused on interior and exterior decoration. Because of the success of the first two volumes, a third, showing both interior and exterior motifs was produced, and the three-volume set was published by Morel in 1875." ('History of Photography', p. 120-121).
This album contains views of sculptural and ornamental details (some of them fragments) of the models made the decoration of the staircase of the Palais des Tuileries, the Entrance to the Gardens of the Tuileries, the façade on the Carrousel of the Louvre, the Flore Pavilion and the Minister of State.

Photogravures

album: 45,7 x 35 x 4,5 cm comps. (smallest): 13,1 x 12,8 cm comps. (largest): 23 x 37,2 cm secondary supports: 44,2 x 31,2 cm

PH1978:0038:003

- Non-contemporary binding consists of 3/4 beige cloth-covered boards and 1/4 light beige cloth-covered spine

imprinted, numbered and signed first imprinted page: PALAIS / DU LOUVRE / ET / DES TUILERIES imprinted title page: PALAIS / DU LOUVRE / ET / DES TUILERIES / MOTIFS DE DÉCORATION INTÉRIEURE ET EXTÉRIEURE / REPRODUITS PAR LES PROCÉDÉS D'HÉLIOGRAVURE / DE E. BALDUS / IIIE PARTIE - DÉCORATIONS INTÉRIEURES ET EXTÉRIEURES / CENT PLANCHES / PARIS / Ve A. MOREL & CIE, LIBRAIRES - ÉDITEURS / 13 - RUE BONAPARTE - 13 / Déposé - Tous droits réservés / imprinted on the verso of the half-title: Imprimerie J. Claye rue Saint Benoît 7 Paris no. 85 dated 1855 in comp.

Paris France

• architecture
• ornement
• sculpture

• oculi (openings)
• figures (representations)
• vases
• fragments
• columns (architectural elements)
• coat of arms
• monuments
• entablatures
• pediments
• pedestals
• equestrian statues
• panels (ornament areas)
• scrolls (motifs)
• molding (object component)
• friezes
• casts (sculpture)
• sculptures (visual works)