Gare d'Enghien

Edouard Baldus

1855 · Salted paper print from paper negative · Photographs

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.

Artist

Edouard Baldus

Date

1855

Medium

Salted paper print from paper negative

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Louis V. Bell Fund, 1992