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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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
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, August - November 2010 (other prints exhibited)
Berenice Abbott, The World of Atget (New York, 1979), pl. 44
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