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Gare d'Enghien

Edouard Baldus French, born Prussia
1855
Not on view
While it may strike us as quaint, this scene represented modern French industry at its most advanced in 1855. Speeding down the tracks that Baldus presented with rushing perspective, trains traveling from Paris to Boulogne-sur-Mer averaged an astonishing thirty-two miles per hour and arrived at their destination in less than one-third the time required by horse-drawn coach.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Gare d'Enghien
  • Artist: Edouard Baldus (French (born Prussia), 1813–1889)
  • Date: 1855
  • Medium: Salted paper print from paper negative
  • Dimensions: Image: 31.3 x 44.3 cm. (12 5/16 x 17 7/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Louis V. Bell Fund, 1992
  • Object Number: 1992.5002
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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