Artist
Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927)French, 1857–1927
CultureFrench
Titles
- Rue de la Montagne Ste. Genevieve
Date1924
PlaceParis, France
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 7 × 8 11/16 in. (17.8 × 22.1 cm)
Sheet: 7 × 8 7/8in. (17.8 × 22.5cm)
Sheet: 7 × 8 7/8in. (17.8 × 22.5cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. S. I. Morris in honor of Anne Wilkes Tucker, The Manfred Heiting Collection.
Object number2002.227
Not on view
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Department
PhotographySpecial Collections
Object Type
his early work, Atget photographed most often at midday, reasoning that
photographs in which bright sunlight illuminated his subjects in all their
detail would be most useful to his artist and craftsman clients. Later in life,
after a major sale gave him the financial security to photograph for himself,
rather than for others, he preferred the early morning or evening hours.
Pictures such as this one, showing the Pantheon glimpsed between dark buildings
in softly lit morning mist, are more personal, expressive, and lyrical than the
“documents for artists” that he made earlier in his career.
Provenance[Hôtel Drouot, Paris]; [Galerie Octant, Paris]; purchased by Manfred Heiting; 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: 6479 [in reverse]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, left edge: Rue de la Montagne // Ste Genevieve // 6479
Stamped in black with addition in pencil, verso, lower right: E. ATGET // Rue Campagne-Première, 17bis[pencil]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, left edge: Rue de la Montagne // Ste Genevieve // 6479
Stamped in black with addition in pencil, verso, lower right: E. ATGET // Rue Campagne-Première, 17bis[pencil]
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