Édouard Loydreau (1820-1905) Photographic studies. Album by Édouard Loydreau, 1860. Personal album by Édouard Loydreau. Self-portraits. Chagny. Railway station. Cour du Puits-d'Or. Castle (demolished 1866). Cross. Rully Castle. Château de La Loyère. Mercurey. Ruins of Château de Montaigu. Calvary of Sampigny-les-Maranges. Château de Rochepot. Prieuré du Val-Saint-Benoît. Roman column at Cussy-la-Colonne. Besançon. The Doubs and the citadel. Carved gate. Ronchaux fountain. Porte Noire. Former Quai d'Arènes. Reproductions of objets d'art and casts (Grand Camée de France, Venus de Milo). Hieratic inscriptions. Outdoor groups. Portraits. Oblong full-percaline album, titled and dated on the front cover, comprising 70 salted paper and salted-aluminum paper prints, from paper or glass negatives, mounted on gilt-edged boards. Binant label at beginning of album. Sizes: from 15 x 12 to 36 x 26 cm Physician, archaeologist, politician (mayor of Chagny) and photographer, Édouard Loydreau began using calotypes in the early 1850s. A member of numerous learned societies - notably the Société d'histoire et d'archéologie de Chalon-sur-Saône and the Société française de photographie - he made early and methodical use of the medium to inventory objects unearthed during his excavations. He also used a large view camera to take pictures of landscapes in the Saône-et-Loire, Jura and Doubs regions. This album, comprising seventy prints on salted paper and salted-aluminum paper, is one of the most important testimonies to the relatively little-known work of this enlightened amateur.