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1860
Paris, France
Édouard Baldus, Plaster Model of an Ornamental Oeil-de-Boeuf for the New Louvre, ca. 1856
Fulfiling his commission to document the construction of the New Louvre "stone by stone," Baldus made thousands of photographs of plaster models and finished statuary as well as ornamental stonework. Although they were eventually printed for albums distributed by Napoleon III to the reigning soverei
Photograph by Édouard Baldus
Louvre
The Louvre, or the Louvre Museum, is a national art museum in Paris, France.
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