Photography, French -- 19th century;Bourgeois de Mercey, Frédéric, 1803-1860 -- Portraits;Château de la Faloise (La Faloise, France);Landscapes;Châteaux;Portraits, Group;Country houses
Notes: Édouard Baldus was the most important French architectural photographer of the 1850s. On one summer day in 1857, he created a remarkable series of views of the Château de la Faloise in which his subject was not primarily the country house,...
Inventions; Photography -- History -- 19th century; Industrial arts -- History
"2 gravure heliographique in line by Poitevin, 6 Procede Heliographique en relief by Baldus, 1 heliographique from nature in relief by Garnier...The Garnier half-tone is one of very few published in the world prior to 1870: only von Egloffstein,...
Photomechanical processes -- History -- 19th century; Photography -- History -- 19th century; Crystal Palace (London, England); Chateau de Fontainebleau (Fontainebleau, France); Musee du Louvre; Sculpture, Medieval -- France -- Reims; Notre-Dame de...
"...20 plates: 3 salt prints (La Parnasse, Raphael; Le Concert de Famille; La Kaire, planche 7), 1 heliogravure of Cardinal Amboise by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, 1 photolithograph of sculpture, Procede Poitevin, 2 photolithographs from art, Zurcher...
"The various methods [of printing represented] are Phototypie (collotype), Heliogravure, Photoglyptie (Woodburytype), Similgravure (Half-tone), Photogravure, Photo-Chromo-Typographie. This catalogue contains examples by most of the major French...
