Mer de Glâce, Chamonix

Édouard Baldus (French, 1815 – 1886)

about 1860

Medium/Technique Photograph, albumen print from paper negative, mounted

Dimensions Sheet: 30.9 x 42.5 cm (12 3/16 x 16 3/4 in.)
Mount: 47.0 x 61.7 cm (18 1/2 x 24 5/16 in.)

Credit Line Sophie M. Friedman Fund

Accession Number1989.23

NOT ON VIEW

ClassificationsPhotographs

DescriptionThis is the name of a famous glacier on Mont-Blanc, above Chamonix
print on buff mount

InscriptionsTitle in graphite, l. l. below image; "E. Baldus" stamped in ink, l. r. below image; "122" in graphite, center below image.

ProvenanceWilliam L. Schaeffer, Chester, Conn.; purchased by MFA from Schaeffer January 1989.