Café, 25, rue des Blancs-Manteaux
1900
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Dimensions
- 21.9 × 17.8 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-632839
A formally dressed waiter stares at the camera from inside this cabaret while above him hangs a sign depicting an armored man lounging on a cannon; combined with the establishment's name, these two subjects create a strikingly masculine image. Although the presence of the waiter implies that this photograph is a portrait, Eugène Atget was actually documenting the elaborately gilded ironwork sign above the entrance, which dates from the 1700s. Atget photographed a number of such signs, including a baby Bacchus astride a wine cask, and the bucket and pulley at a well.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1900 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum — photographs
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