Title
Pavilion central nord de la cour Napoléon IIIArtist
Baldus, Edouard (French, 1813-1889)Publication
Musée des FamillesDate
1857 plate (1855 negative)Process
PhotoxylographAtelier
LallemandImage Size
16 x 18 cm
This print appeared in the 1857 periodical, Musée des Familles. The caption reads Pavillion centrálnord de la cour Napoléon III, photographiè sur bois par Lallemand, d’après M. Baldus which translates to "Central pavilion of the Napoleon III court, photographed on wood by Lallemand, after M. Baldus ". The process is called Photoxylography and is defined as the process of producing a representation of an object on wood, by photography, for the use of the wood engraver.
Reproduced / Exhibited
Jammes, André, De Nieìpce AÌ Stieglitz: La Photographie En Taille-Douce : [exposition], 19 Novembre 1982-20 Feìvrier 1983, Museìe De L’elyseìe, Lausanne. Lausanne: Le Museìe, 1982 no. 28
De Andere Fotografie de Geschiedenis van de Fotomechanische Reproductie in de Negentiende Eeuw: tentoonstelling in het Zeeuws Museum Middelburg 1989 (The Other Photography the History of Photomechanical Reproduction in the Nineteenth Century: Exhibition in the Zeeuws Museum Middelburg 1989) Exhibited chk. 21
McCauley, Elizabeth Anne, AAE Disdéri and the business card portrait photograph, New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985.
