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Baldus, Édouard Plaster models and ornamental sculpture for the Nouveau Louvre (Réunion des Tuileries au Louvre). 1855-57. 6 salted paper prints, mounted to original sheets. Varying sizes (mounts 31 x 45,5 cm). Numbered "793", "836", "851" and "859" in the negatives. Baldus made this systematic photographic survey for Hector-Martin Lefuel’s vast project uniting the Louvre and Tuileries palaces. The group includes studies of sculptural models, reliefs, decorative panels and a pediment; no. 859 records Claude Leprêtre’s La Paix. – Mounts with overall time-staining, scattered foxing, handling creases and some planar distortion; small edge tears and losses, most notably to the first mount and the mount with the two vertical relief studies, the first also with a diagonal crease in the upper right corner; prints generally clear and well preserved, overall in good condition.
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