Edouard Baldus - The Avignon Bridge (Saint-Bénézet) Vintage signed photograph

Vintage albumen print of the Pont d'Avignon (Pont Saint-Bénézet)

Signed print on cardboard

Baldus' photographic work is devoted to architecture and landscape and marked by official commissions which made him one of Napoleon III's (1808-1873) favorite photographers.

He is the official witness of his time through his numerous photographic works on the restoration of monuments or railway works.

 

He documented, among other things, the reconstruction of the Louvre and the opening of the Paris-Lyon-Marseille railway line. Alongside Hippolyte Bayard (1801-1887), Henri Le Secq (1818-1882), Gustave Le Gray (1820-1884) and O. Mestral (1812-1884), he participated in the 1851 Heliographic Mission commissioned by the Commission of Historical Monuments to draw up an inventory of the most remarkable buildings in need of restoration in various regions of France.