id: 152229 accession number: 1985.115 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.115 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:54.663000 Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève, 1898. Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927). 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 title: Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1898 creation date earliest: 1898 creation date latest: 1898 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: albumen print, gold toned department: Photography collection: Photography type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927) - artist Eugène Atget French, 1857-1927 Relatively unknown to the public during his lifetime, Eugène 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. Using relatively unsophisticated, even outdated equipment, Atget achieved a view of French architecture and culture that is both personal and factual.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. T.W.F. --- 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.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on verso: "EA 8794-2"; "Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève" translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'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 --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 87 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.115/1985.115_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.115/1985.115_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1985.115/1985.115_full.tif