Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927)

Albumen print. Annotated Rue Asselin by the photographer and with negative number 6218 in pencil on the reverse.

Private collection, Paris

Maria Morris Hambourg/ John Szarkowski, The Work of Atget, vol. IV, Modern Times, New York, The Museum of Modern Art/ London, The Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1985, ill. p. 74;
The Art of Photography. 1839-1989, exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston/ Australian National Gallery, Canberra/ Royal Academy of Arts, London/, New Heaven/ London, Yale University Press, 1989, ill. p. 173;
Atget, Paris, Paris, Hazan, 1992, ill. p. 759;
Molly Nesbit, Atget's Seven Albums, New Heaven/ London, Yale Publication in the History of Art, 1992, ill. p. 28;
Une passion française. Photographies de la collection Roger Therond, Paris Filipacchi/ Maison Européene de la Photographie, 1999, ill. p. 221;
Photography. Orsay, Paris, Edition Scale, 2000, ill. p. 121;
Peter Barberie, Looking at Atget, Philadelphia Museum of Art/ Yale University Press, New Haven/ London, 2005, ill. p. 83 (this print by Berenice Abbott);
Atget. Une Rétrospective, exh. cat. Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, Hazan, 2007, ill. p. 76.

The print is in excellent condition. There is some very light fading at the left edge and in the upper left corner. With a light superficial crack in the lower right quadrant and four very small superficial stains near the lower left edge only visible in raking light. The print was formerly mounted to a book page from the 1930s and has been profesionally removed from this support. Some very light remnants of the former mounting are visible on the reverse and partially recto. The print is very slightly more yellow than the illustration in the catalogue.
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