id:			160777
accession number:	1999.108
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1999.108
updated:		2022-01-04 17:25:31.738000

Fish Porters, late 1890s. Paul Géniaux (French, 1873-1929). Albumen print; paper: 17.6 x 12.8 cm (6 15/16 x 5 1/16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1999.108

title:				Fish Porters
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creation date:			late 1890s
creation date earliest:		1890
creation date latest:		1900
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creditline:			John L. Severance Fund
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culture:	France, 19th century
technique:	albumen print
department:	Photography
collection:	Photography
type:		Photograph
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CREATORS

* Paul Géniaux (French, 1873-1929)  - artist

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measurements: Paper: 17.6 x 12.8 cm (6 15/16 x 5 1/16 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
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	inscription:	written in pencil on verso: "Forts au poisson/ Q1798"
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-05-27T00:00:00
	<i>19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (May 27-August 9, 2000).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* Cleveland, Ohio:  The Cleveland Museum of Art; 5/27/00 - 8/9/00.  "19th-Century French Portrait Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art."<br>The Cleveland Museum of Art, “Cheating Death: Portrait Photography’s First Half Century” (10/22/2016-2/5/2017)

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PROVENANCE

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Little is known about Géniaux, who was active from the 1890s through the 1920s as a commercial photographer. Clearly a practitioner with a trained eye, he created this engaging portrait of two fish porters dressed in traditional work clothes complete with leather arm guards and metal identification badges. He positioned the men with their fish containers in front of a mounted sign listing the tariffs on goods sold in the Paris Central Market. Géniaux's examinations of the city's laborers were soon expanded by Eugène Atget (1856-1927), who methodically photographed the city and its inhabitants.
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