Eugène Atget
Coin, Boulevard de la Chapelle et Rue Fleury 76, 18e, Paris

ArtistFrench, 1857–1927
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Coin, Boulevard de la Chapelle et Rue Fleury 76, 18e, Paris
  • Corner of Boulevard de la Chapelle et Rue Fleury 76, 18e, Paris
Date1921
Place depictedParis, France
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 7 × 8 11/16 in. (17.8 × 22.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/8 × 8 11/16in. (18.1 × 22.1cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Brown Foundation Accessions Endowment, The Manfred Heiting Collection
Object number2002.222
Non exposé

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionAtget
was not a portraitist. He never photographed friends or family—not even his
common-law wife of four decades, Valentine—and he generally preferred to
photograph at times of day when the streets of Paris would be empty. However,
in the spring of 1921, at the urging of his friend the illustrator André
Dignimont for a possible publication called La
Femme criminelle
, Atget made a dozen photographs of prostitutes, such as
these two women standing at attention before the unmarked entrance of their
establishment.

Provenance[Lunn Ltd., Washington, D. C.]; purchased by Manfred Heiting, August 9, 1984; purchased by MFAH, 2002.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited in "Paris Photographs from the Manfred Heiting Collection" at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, July 17-October 6, 2002.

"Paris in Loving Detail: Photographs by Charles Marville and Eugene Atget", MFAH, Lower Brown Corridor, August 23, 2004 - December 13, 2004.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in negative, recto, lower right: 20 [reversed]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, left edge: Rue Fleury // A de [?] la Chapelle 20
Inscribed in pencil, verso, right edge: BS 057/C

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