Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2019.

Meaux-ancien cloîture des Chanoines

Artist Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)

CultureFrench

Date1910

MediumGelatin silver chloride print from glass negative

Dimensions8 15/16 × 6 7/8 in. (22.7 × 17.5 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)
Overall, Frame: 21 1/4 × 17 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (54 × 43.8 × 3.2 cm)

Credit LineGift of Susan and Paul Hirschbiel

Object number2019.19.1

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 228

DescriptionThis is a photograph that depicts the stairwell of the cloisters at Meaux, France.
Label TextEugène Atget French, 1857–1927 Meaux—former Canon’s Cloister, 1910 Gelatin silver chloride print from glass negative Eugène Atget trained as an actor before taking up photography in the late 1880s. Artists, craftsmen, decorators, and builders used his photographs of nature, the city, and architecture for source material. Eventually, his many scenes of Paris became a visual archive of French cultural patrimony. Long after the introduction of portable cameras, Atget continued to use a large-view camera with a tripod to produce glass negatives, a painstaking method that resulted in detailed images. Here, Atget recorded a decaying staircase at a thirteenth-century chapter house before its restoration two years later. Gift of Susan and Paul Hirschbiel 2019.19.1 ProvenanceEugene Atget; Berenice Abbott and Julian Levy, 1927-1968; sold to Museum of Modern Art, 1968-2002; purchased by Susan and Paul Hirschbiel, 2002; gifted to the Chryslr Museum of Art, 2019.Exhibition History"New Frames of Reference: Early French Photographers at Home and Abroad," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Va, gallery 228, September 5, 2024 - February 16, 2025.