Eugène Atget
Rue de la Montagne Ste. Genevieve

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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)

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

Photography

Special Collections

Manfred Heiting Collection of Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionIn
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]

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