[Entrance to the Port of Boulogne]

Édouard Baldus's 'Entry to the Port of Boulogne' (c. 1855) is a salted paper print from a paper negative — the painterly early-photographic process the French master used to record Boulogne's Channel harbour, its quays, masts, and grey northern sky. Baldus was a pioneering documentary photographer of French railways, fortifications, and cathedrals in the 1850s–60s; the Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the print as a reference work in its collection of early French photography.

Exhibition Venue

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Manhattan, United States