Ancien Hôtel des Parlementaires, 3 Rue des Lions
Eugène Atget
c. 1910
Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image/sheet: 22 × 18 cm (8 11/16 × 7 1/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Brenda and Robert Edelson Collection)
Accession Number
2015.19.4651
About the Artist
Eugène Atget
Eugène Atget, born Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget on February 12, 1857, in Libourne, France, faced early hardship as an orphan at age seven after his carriage-builder father died in 1862 and his mother soon followed. Raised by his maternal grandparents in Bordeaux, he briefly joined the merchant navy after secondary education and pursued acting in Paris from 1878, attending the Conservatoire d'Art Dram...