{"data": {"id": 152229, "accession_number": "1985.115", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve, 1898. Eug\u00e8ne Atget (French, 1857\u20131927). Albumen print, gold toned; image: 22 x 17.4 cm (8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1985.115", "current_location": "230 Photography", "title": "Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve", "creation_date": "1898", "creation_date_earliest": 1898, "creation_date_latest": 1898, "artists_tags": ["male"], "culture": ["France, 20th century"], "technique": "albumen print, gold toned", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "Photography", "type": "Photograph", "measurements": "Image: 22 x 17.4 cm (8 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)", "dimensions": {"image": {"height": 0.22, "height_inch": 8, "height_inch_fraction": 0.6875, "width": 0.174, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.875}, "matted": {"height": 0.457, "height_inch": 18, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.356, "width_inch": 14, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"EA 8794-2\"; \"Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Genevi\u00e8ve\"", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 705705, "title": "France in the Time of Manet and Morisot", "description": "<i>France in the Time of Manet and Morisot</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 10-August 23, 2026).", "opening_date": "2026-05-10T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, October 27 - December 6, 1982: \"La Photographie comme modele,\"  repr. p. 32 in exhibition catalogue.", "opening_date": "1982-10-27T00:00:00"}, {"description": "CMA, February 12 - April 20, 1986: \"Year in Review,\" CMA Bulletin, 73 (Feb. 1986), p. 64, no. 58.", "opening_date": "1986-02-12T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Eug\u00e8ne Atget's goal as a photographer was to document the old buildings and streets of Paris before they were demolished.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This narrow street, the site of the founding of the University of Paris in 1112, ends in a church built in the 1600s. Atget sold his photographs not as art but as \u201cdocuments for artists,\u201d similar in purpose to the nude studies other photographers made for use by painters. That may be why he photographed early in the morning, when a normally bustling street like this one was empty.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79936329"], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. <em>Catalogue of Photography</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.", "page_number": "Reproduced: P. 87", "url": ""}], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.115", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.115/1985.115_web.jpg", "width": "699", "height": "893", "filesize": "369659", "filename": "1985.115_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.115/1985.115_print.jpg", "width": "2660", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4735769", "filename": "1985.115_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.115/1985.115_full.tif", "width": "3584", "height": "4581", "filesize": "49286640", "filename": "1985.115_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "John L. Severance Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": "Mark Schwartz and Bettina Katz Photography Galleries", "athena_id": 152229, "creators": [{"id": 23, "description": "Eug\u00e8ne Atget (French, 1857\u20131927)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Eug\u00e8ne Atget French, 1857-1927\r\n\r\nRelatively unknown to the public during his lifetime, Eug\u00e8ne Atget is today an icon -- one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century. Born near Bordeaux, Atget first directed his efforts to painting and the stage before turning to photography shortly before 1890. He is best known for his documentary scenes of Paris and Versailles, but he photographed a number of other sites as well. Atget viewed his work as a historical and aesthetic record, regarding it as documentation for use by artists. Indeed, several artists are known to have painted from his images.\r\n\tUsing relatively unsophisticated, even outdated equipment, Atget achieved a view of French architecture and culture that is both personal and factual. Along with the rediscovery of the images of Mathew Brady in the early 20th century, the recognition of Atget's artistic accomplishments shortly before his death by Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and others helped turn photographers away from the mannered style of pictorialism toward the visual and technical clarity of modernism. Marked by a selective and highly individual method, his is among the most widely shown, published, and recognized work in photography today. 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