Avignon, Inondations, No 81
Artist
Édouard Baldus
(French, born Prussia, 1813 - 1889)
Date1856
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage and sheet: 12 1/4 × 17 7/16 inches (31.12 × 44.29 cm)
Mount: 19 3/16 × 25 1/16 inches (48.74 × 63.66 cm)
Mount: 19 3/16 × 25 1/16 inches (48.74 × 63.66 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2016.75.5
SignedOn image recto, lower right, in negative: “E. Baldus”;
On mount recto, lower right, in blue ink: “E. Baldus”.
InscribedOn image recto, lower left, in negative: “Avignon (Inondation de 1856.)”
Markingsnone
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionImage of flooded area with three small boats in water along right edge; small trees scattered among water, house on island. Other houses scattered among flooded landscape with low lying mountains barely visible along the horizon. Image taken from high vantage point looking down onto flooded landscape.ProvenanceThe Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2016;
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2016.
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