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Pavilion Richelieu, Louvre, Paris
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About this work
In 1854, Édouard Baldus and two other artists were commissioned to record construction of the New Louvre. New wings joined the Louvre Palace, started in the late 1100s, to the Tuileries Palace, begun in 1564. The Pavilion Richelieu, completed shortly before this photograph was taken, originally housed governmental offices and only became part of the Louvre Museum in 1993.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit linePavilion Richelieu, Louvre, Paris, 1856–57. Édouard Baldus (French, 1813–1889). Salted paper print, albumenized, from wet collodion negative; image: 44.5 x 34.3 cm (17 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1991.160
