met-photos:[Roman Arch at Orange] by Édouard BaldusPurchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift
met-photos:[Roman Arch at Orange] by Édouard BaldusPurchase, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, and Edward Pearce Casey Fund, 1990Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NYMedium: Salted paper print from paper negative2 vues sur l’Arc de triomphe d'Orange, Orange, Vaucluse, 1853 et 2016.It is also called L'arc antique d'Orange. The upper photo was taken in 1853 by the French photographer Edouard Baldus. It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum in New York City. The lower is a snapshot I took in 2016. The Roman triumphal arch is dated from about 20 BCE built during the reign of Augustus. It was subject to restoration work in the 1850s and again in the late 20th century. -- source link
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