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Eugène Atget: House on the Place du Caire   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Eugène Atget  (1857–1927)  wikidata:Q322030 q:cs:Eugène Atget
 
Eugène Atget
Description French photographer and architectural photographer
Date of birth/death 12 February 1857 Edit this at Wikidata 4 August 1927 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Libourne 14th arrondissement of Paris
Work period 1877 Edit this at Wikidata–1927 Edit this at Wikidata
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Paris (1878–1927) Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q322030
Title
House on the Place du Caire
Description
English: The large sphinx heads ornamenting this house, built in 1799, reveal the influence of Napoleon Bonaparte's recent Egyptian campaign. Other eclectic elements, such as the decorative frieze of Roman figures above the sphinxes and the vaguely Moorish arched trefoil windows on this building, also crept into urban architecture in Paris at this time. Eugène Atget revealed his interest in historic architecture in a letter describing the inventory of negatives that he hoped to sell to the École des Beaux-Arts: "I have amassed . . . artistic documents of fine civil architecture" from the 1500s through the 1800s, "old hotels, historic or curious houses, . . . fine facades." Inevitably, Atget also recorded bystanders in his urban photographs; they became fundamental elements of the final images. When taking this picture, Atget and his cumbersome tripod-mounted view camera clearly drew the attention of four men in front of the street-level restaurant.
Date 1903
date QS:P571,+1903-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Albumen silver print
Dimensions Image: 22.1 x 17.8 cm (8 11/16 x 7 in.)
institution QS:P195,Q29247
Accession number
90.XM.127.3
Inscriptions Inscription: Inscribed verso print in pencil: title and negative number "4710". Secondary Inscription: Inscribed verso print in pencil in unknown later hand: "p3".
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The Getty Center, Object 71251

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