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Atget, Eugene
French (1857-1927)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Detail - Fontaine Maubuee Rue St. Martin 122 (IVe)
PUBLISHED TITLE: Fontaine Maubuee, rue Saint-Martin 122

1900
albumen print
21.7 x 18.4 cm. (trimmed)
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 11901
81:0950:0045

NON-GEH NUMBER: Atget # 3950 (AP)

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Szarkowski, John & Hambourg, Maria Morris. --The Work of Atget, Vol. II, The Art of Old Paris.-- Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1982. p. 92.//
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 ***.//

INSCRIPTION: verso-(in pencil) "Detail - Fontaine Maubuee R St Martin 122 (IVe)" "3950"

NOTES: Catalogued 4/86, DZ. "The little fountain depicted in plate 48 (Szarkowski) was sculpted in 1733 to replace one that had existed in medieval Paris." (Szarkowski, p. 178) Published title from --The Work of Atget, Vol. II--. From album #1, source of album uncertain.

SUBJECTS:
architecture, detail
study, fountain

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