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Eugène Atget
1907-1908
Medium
albumen print
Dimensions
overall: 22.9 x 18.1 cm (9 x 7 1/8 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mitchell and Nancy Steir
Accession Number
2004.163.3
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...