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Voitures, marché des Patriarches, rue Mouffetard ,
1910
Eugène Atget, French, 1857–1927
2004-282
More Context
Didactics
In just over three decades, the French photographer Eugène Atget made ten thousand photographic negatives that documented the cultural legacy of France and its rapidly changing capital, Paris. Atget considered himself a documentary photographer and marketed his services to artists, architects, libraries, and museums. His diverse portfolio included images of street scenes, such as this view of carriages on the rue Moffetard. He did not receive widespread recognition until the 1920s, when the American photographer Berenice Abbott published many of his images and championed his work.
Information
Title
Voitures, marché des Patriarches, rue Mouffetard
Dates
1910
Maker
Medium
Albumen print
Dimensions
17 × 22.3 cm (6 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
mount: 37 x 29.6 cm. (14 9/16 x 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, gift of the Friends of the Princeton University Art Museum in honor of Peter C. Bunnell
Object Number
2004-282
Place Depicted
Europe, France, Paris, Marché des patriarches
Inscription
Numbered in graphite, lower right: [encirlced] 8
Titled and numbered in graphite, verso top center: Marelie des Patriarches / (Neg. #35)
Marks/Labels/Seals
In negative, lower left of print: [reversed] 35
Reference Numbers
Nesbit 35
Culture
Techniques
Subject
- Molly Nesbit, Atget's Seven Albums (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992)., fig. 35, p. 358
- "Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2004," Record of the Princeton University Art Museum 64 (2005): p. 91-135., p. 115
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007), p. 313 (illus.)
- Princeton University Art Museum: Handbook of the Collections (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, 2013), p. 365
