Book# 30806

Baldus, Edouard

Palais du Louvre et des Tuileries. [Volume I: Decorations Interieures. Volume II: Decorations Exterieures. Volume III: Decorations Exterieures et Interieures].

Ort   Paris
Verlag   Morel
Einband   1/2 morocco and marbled boards
Illustration, Ausstattung   300 ill.

 

Together 3 volumes, each illustrated with 100 gravure reproductions of interior and exterior ornamental, and architectural details of both the Louvre and Tuileries, for a total of 300 photogravure plates. Complete sets of this title are rare. According to Malcolm Daniel, "Baldus first published his own photographs in photogravure form in a publication on the architecture and ornamentation of the Louvre and the Tuileries Palaces issued in installments beginning in 1869 [...] a publication that must have seemed ironically timely, for while it was still being issued the Tuilerie Palace and parts of the Louvre were burned down during the 1871 Commune." - Nur Kurztitelaufnahme 06.2006.
Cat. auction Swann Galleries, New York, 18.05.2006 (sale 2080, lot 318): Estimate 5000-7500 $ (margins of plates moderately foxed).
Photographie Architektur 19. Jahrh. Monographie France, Frankreich, Paris Architekturphotographie, Profanbauten Innenarchitektur 

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