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Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2023.
Night Asylum, Paris
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2023.
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2023.

Night Asylum, Paris

Artist Anonymous
CultureFrench
Datec. 1890
MediumAlbumen print
DimensionsOverall, Image: 4 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (10.8 × 15 cm)
support: 4 11/16 × 5 7/8 in. (11.9 × 15 cm)
Overall, Mat: 16 × 20 in. (40.6 × 50.8 cm)
Overall, Frame (estimated): 17 1/4 × 21 1/4 × 1 1/4 in. (43.8 × 54 × 3.2 cm)
Markings826 is written in ink on the mount.
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2022.42.5
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThe image depicts several women and a girl seated around a pair of tables in a small room. Two men are standing to the right. They all appear to be resting or sleeping. This is a very rare image of one of Paris's commercial night asylums where the homeless could find shelter for the night. For a few cents they received soup or wine and could sleep seated at a table. The most well known of these "night asylums" were the Fradin on rue Saint-Denis and the Château Rouge on rue Galande. The presence of women suggests that this could be the Château Rouge.
ProvenancePurchased by Serge Kakou at a flea market in the 1990s; purchased by Chrysler Museum of Art, December 2022.
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