Louvre, architectural detail
Salt print, 1850s
10/10; 86 x 312 mm, mounted
$2000.
From a series of early architectural studies that Baldus made of the Louvre.
Place de la Concorde, Paris
Salt print, c. 1857
9-10/10; 196 x 267 mm, mounted.
$875.
Baldus photographs in this format are much more typically printed as albumen prints. An albumen print of Christchurch Cathedral is on the verso of the thin card mount.
St. Trophîme at Arles
Salt print, c. 1855
9-10/10, minor original retouching; 478 x 340mm, mounted
$6500.
Inscription and Baldus signature in the negative and the photographer's blue blind stamp on mount.