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Gorge at Eaux Chaudes, Pyrenees
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About this work
The town of Pau, in the foothills of the Pyrenees Mountains, was a popular vacation spot for British tourists and one of several centers for photography in France in the 1850s. Jean-Jacques Heilmann, who lived in Pau, photographed the road that ran through the mountains to the village of Eaux-Chaudes with its popular hot springs. The road had just been built in 1849. It greatly eased access to Eaux-Chaudes and offered dramatic views.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineGorge at Eaux Chaudes, Pyrenees, c. 1855. Jean-Jacques Heilmann (French, 1822–1859). Salted paper print from wet collodion negative; image: 25.8 x 19.7 cm (10 3/16 x 7 3/4 in.); matted: 61 x 50.8 cm (24 x 20 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund, 1995.27
