Édouard Baldus (1813-1889)

Albumen prints on original cards. Each with the photographer's signature stamp on the card at lower right. Each titled in pencil in an unknown hand at the lower left edge.

Daniel, Malcolm, The Photographs of Edouard Baldus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1994, p. 84 (Avignon, Le vieux pont, variant). 

Generally in very good condition. "Marseille, Le Fort St. Jean" and "Avignon, Château des Papes" with a slightly rubbed surface; otherwise in excellent condition. The cards partially lightly soiled, each with remnants of an earlier mounting at the upper edge on the reverse.
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The group comprises: Orange, Arc de Trimphe; Avignon, Le Vieux Pont; Avignon, Chateau des Papes; and Marseille, Le Fort St. Jean.