Eugène Atget (1857 - 1927)

Tirage albuminé. Avec le numéro du négatif inversé et partiellement visible en bas à gauche. Au verso, numéroté 399 au crayon par le photographe et annoté Fortifications au crayon d'une main inconnue.



Albumen print. With the inversed negative number partially cropped at lower left. On the reverse, numbered 399 in pencil by the photographer and annotated Fortifications in pencil by an unknown hand.

Molly Nesbit, Atget's Seven Albums, New Haven/ London, 1992, ill. p. 402.

Très bon état. Le bord droit coupé irrégulièrement (déchiré) et avec une déchirure de 3 mm dans la partie inférieure. Le bord gauche avec deux déchirures de 2 mm dans la partie inférieure. Les bords latéral gauche et inférieur légèrement palis. Le tirage original est plus jaune que dans la réproduction du catalogue. Very good condition. The right edge is irregularly cut (torn) and ha a tear of 3 mm in the lower part. The left edge has two tears of 2 mm in the lower part. Light fading along the left and the lower edges. The original print is more yellow that its repoduction in the catalogue.
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De la série Paris Pittoresque II.