About This Image

Signed by Rostaing in blue ink at bottom right recto, although Baldus published an identical image. Titled by Rostaing in blue in on bottom recto of mount. See: Daniel, Photographs of Edouard Baldus, pl.83.

One of Rostaing\'s predecessors fought in the American Revolution at Yorktown as a Colonel and commanded the regiment of Gatinois.

Rostaing himself was from Seillans, a commune in the Var department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d\'Azur region in southeastern France.

He was a student and friend of Edouard Baldus and there is some evidence that he traveled and photographed with his mentor in 1855 and 1856. He produced waxed paper negatives in the same grand format that Baldus did, some of the largest in Europe at the time. Most of his prints he made from these negatives are albumen prints. To further confuse the issue of authorship of certain images, some photographs signed by Baldus also bear the signature of the Marquis de Rostaing. Some of these are in the collection of the George Eastman House in Rochester. Rostaing also appears to have accompanied Baldus during the latter\'s photography trip to shoot his famed Paris-Lyon-Marseille (PLM) album for the train line.

Rostaing worked from the 1850s through 1860s. He photographed in southeastern France and the countryside near Nice, but he also photographed in Normandy in 1856, including the Cathedral at Rouen, and even Paris--probably with Baldus.

There is some question about when and how he died. Some reports say he died of cholera in 1870 in an epidemic that swept Seillans.

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