Edouard Baldus: Cloister of Saint Trophime, Arles

An albumen print (1861) of the famous photomontage made by Edouard Baldus (1813-1889). Baldus combined several negatives to create the perfect print with details in the light and dark parts. An HDR photograph avant la lettre! We add the second albumen print of the same location by Neurdein. Interesting to compare the quality of both prints. A piece of photographic history!

Signed in the lower right corner with his stamp in black ink. Numbered "102" in pencil under the image. Albumen print in good condition with nice tonality. Only slight yellowing in the upper part of the print.

ca. 20,6 x 23,4 cm. This is slightly smaller than the earlier salt prints, trimmed thin cardboard. Probably from an album like the example in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Literature:
Anne de Mondenard; La Mission héliographique 2002 (p.113)
Edouard Baldus, photographe, 1994 (p. 123)
Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop (p. 44 and 46)
Karen Hellman: Real / Ideal, Photography in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France, Getty Publications 2016 (p. 98-99)