Marville was a pioneering French documentary photographer who used albumen prints to capture grand architectural and landscape subjects in Paris and its surroundings, sharing Atget's commitment to recording historical spaces with quiet precision and classical composition.

Le Secq created meticulous albumen and salted paper photographs of French architectural monuments and formal gardens, capturing the same sense of historical grandeur and monumental scale found in Atget's documentation of Versailles.

Baldus photographed the grand architectural landscapes and formal grounds of French royal and imperial sites using large format documentary techniques, producing images with the same classical stillness, sweeping scale, and reverence for designed outdoor spaces as Atget's basin photograph.