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Atget, Eugene
French (1857-1927)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Maison Close
PUBLISHED TITLE: Versailles, femme et soldat, maison close, Mai 1921
PORTFOLIO TITLE: "20 Photographs by Eugene Atget", New York, 1956

May, 1921 / printed 1956 by Berenice Abbott from Atget's negative
toned gelatin silver print
23.2 x 17.3 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 6212
76:0109:0010

OLD GEH NUMBER: 4745-10
NON-GEH NUMBER: Atget # 17 (PP)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Leroy, Jean. --Camera. "Who was Eugene Atget?".-- Lucerne: C.J. Bucher, Ltd., 1962 December. p. 38.//
Szarkowski, John & Hambourg, Maria Morris. --The Work of Atget - Vol. IV, Modern Times.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1985. p. 109.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(inscribed in negative, retouched) "17 (reversed)" verso-(stamp) "10"

NOTES: Catalogued 1/86, DZ. Published title and date from --The Work of Atget, Vol. IV--. This portfolio (No. 10 in an edition of 100) of 20 photographs was printed by Berenice Abbott from her collection of Atget's 18.0 x 24.0 cm. glass negatives. The titles as assigned by Abbott may differ somewhat from those titles originally given by Atget.

SUBJECT: portrait, couple

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