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Chemin de fer de Toulouse à Bayonne. Pont de l'Aran (en trois arches de 17m d'ouverture chacune). Situation des travaux au 21 juillet 1861
Édouard Baldus1861
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
Edouard Baldus, the most important French 19th-century architectural photographer, here reveals the process of constructing a bridge. In 1861 he was commissioned by the railway company that owned the principal route across southwest France to document the region’s landscape, towns, monuments, and railroad structures such as bridges and viaducts.
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- Title: Chemin de fer de Toulouse à Bayonne. Pont de l'Aran (en trois arches de 17m d'ouverture chacune). Situation des travaux au 21 juillet 1861
- Creator: Édouard Baldus (French, 1813-1889)
- Date Created: 1861
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 31.1 x 43.2 cm (12 1/4 x 17 in.)
- Provenance: Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg, Scarsdale, NY, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Photograph
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.55
- Medium: albumen print from collodion negative
- Fun Fact: The rise of photography coincided with the creation of the railroads and the modernization of France.
- Department: Photography
- Culture: France
- Credit Line: Gift of Michael Mattis and Judith Hochberg
- Collection: PH - French 19th Century
- Accession Number: 2021.55
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