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Atget, Eugene
French (1857-1927)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Un coin du Vieux-Vanves
PUBLISHED TITLE: Vanves, un coin de vieux Vanves
PORTFOLIO TITLE: "Atget 100 Photographies" (undated)

1901
albumen print
21.6 x 17.5 cm. (trimmed)
Museum Purchase: ex-collection Mme. Louette, via Kodak-Pathe
GEH NEG: 14026
78:1628:0024

OLD GEH NUMBER: 3272
NON-GEH NUMBER: Atget # 6144 (E)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Szarkowski, John & Hambourg, Maria Morris. --The Work of Atget, Vol. I, Old France.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1981. p. 112.//
GEH submitted this image, among others, to the Museum Education Site Licensing Project - Round 1, 1994.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Eugene Atget", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Travel, *** no exhib date given ***.//
"Eugene Atget", Japan, Tokyo, Printemps Ginza, April 25 - May 14, 1991.//
"Realism Unadorned: Photographs by Eugene Atget", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - South Gallery, February 13 - May 23, 1993.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Un coin du Vieux Vanves" "6144"

NOTES: Catalogued 3/86, DZ. "Vanves was famous for its pure water. To protect that special resource as sign admonished the citizens not to wash laundry, rinse vehicles, or water horses in the fountain." (Szarkowski) Published title from --The Work of Atget, Vol. I--.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, fountain
cityscape

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