The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art

The World of Eugène Atget: Photographs from The Museum of Modern Art

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 45. Selected Images of Jardins du château de Versailles (2 Photographs).

Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's Collection

Eugène Atget

Selected Images of Jardins du château de Versailles (2 Photographs)

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7,000 - 10,000 USD

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Property of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Sold to Benefit the Development of MoMA's Collection

Eugène Atget

1857 - 1927

Selected Images of Jardins du château de Versailles (2 Photographs)


a group of 2 albumen prints, comprising Le Mélancolique par Michel de La Perdrix and Hercule Commode du

Belvédère par Noël Jouvenet, each titled and numbered '1214' and '1247,' respectively, in pencil, the latter with the photographer's Rue Campagne-Première studio stamp, annotated '17 bis' in pencil on the reverse

images approximately: 8⅝ by 7¼ in. (21.9 by 18.4 cm.)

Executed in 1923-24.

Abbott-Levy Collection

Acquired by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden and Family of Man Fund, 1968

Berenice Abbott, The World of Atget (New York, 1979), pl. 44

New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, August - November 2010 (other prints exhibited)