Eugène Atget
Faucheur (Somme)

ArtistFrench, 1857–1927
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Faucheur (Somme)
  • Reaper (Somme)
Datebefore 1900
PlaceSomme, France
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 6 3/4 × 8 11/16 in. (17.2 × 22.1 cm)
Sheet: 6 15/16 × 8 11/16 in. (17.6 × 22.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Israel Englander
Object number2018.214
Not on view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
DescriptionEarly
in his photographic career, Eugène Atget photographed laborers in the
countryside, such as the harvesters pictured here, so reminiscent of those in
many 19th-century French paintings. Atget’s earliest stock of photographs,
intended as aids for artists, included “landscapes, animals, flowers,
monuments, documents, and foregrounds for painters.”

ProvenanceMr. and Mrs. Israel Englander; given to MFAH 2010.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in negative, recto, bottom right corner: 858 [in reverse]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, vertical left edge: Faucheur (Somme) 858 [circled]

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