Artist Index: Atget, Eugène

"Cour du College Torlet, rue Vilette". Circa 1900. Albumen print. 22 x 17,6 cm. Annotated by the photographer in pencil on the verso. Matted.

Slight damage in the negative in upper right corner, slightly faded in edges, otherwise in very good condition.

"Cour de Rouen, Blvd. St. Germain". Circa 1915. Albumen print. 21,4 x 17,7 cm. Annotated by the photographer and number 3923 in pencil on the verso. Matted.

Traces of previous mounting on the verso, some light handling creases, otherwise a strong print in very good condition.

"Rue Asselin". 1924-25/printed 1930s by Berenice Abbott. Gelatin silver print. 23,3 x 17,2 cm. Reproduction limitation stamp and Eugene Atget Photographs, Collection Berenice Abbott on the verso.

Printed by Berenice Abbott from Atget's negative. It is one of the earliest prints of the image made by Abbott. Prints of this image by Abbott are scarce. – Diagonal fold mark upper left, small crease in lower left corner, otherwise a strong tonal print in very good condition.

Lit.: John Szarkowski/Maria Morris Hambourg (eds.). Eugène Atget. 1857 - 1927. Das neue Jahrhundert. Band IV Munich 1985, ill. p. 104, plate 68.