Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève
1898
- Medium
- albumen print, gold toned
- Dimensions
- 22 × 17.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-192298
Eugène Atget became a photographer in the 1890s. His goal, like that of Charles Marville decades before, was to document the old buildings and streets of Paris before they were demolished. 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 “documents for artists,” 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.
Provenance
Severance Fund, 1985.115
Registry history
- 1898 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — photographs
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