19th Century French Heliogravure Print of Two Vases by Edouard Baldus

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This is a beautiful and intricate heliogravure print made of two vases by French photographer Edouard Baldus. His method was … Read more This is a beautiful and intricate heliogravure print made of two vases by French photographer Edouard Baldus. His method was innovative and unique for the time period. From Photogravure.com: "Beginning in the mid 1860s with this publication, and lasting until the early 1880s, Édouard Baldus’ primary commercial activity centered on the production of photogravures, a process he first explored in 1854. It was a series of 100 heliogravures published between 1866 and 1869 reproducing ornamental engravings of past masters including Dürer, Ducerceau, and Holbein. This work had nothing to do with promoting artistic photography or his own photographic work; instead it was an industrial application of photography that brought credit and financial gain to Baldus as an inventor and entrepreneur rather than an artist."

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