Versailles Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe, 1904, No. 6479
1904. Albumen silver print from glass negative, from the Atget's series on sculptures on the grounds of Versailles, annotated in the artist's hand in pencil on verso, "Versailles Bosquet de L'arc de Triomphe", with his inventory number '6479';
1904; 8 1/2 X 7 inches (217 x 178 mm). Ex. collection Philadelphia Museum of Art, with their accession number crossed out verso lower left. In fine condition.
[Barberie, Peter: Looking at Atget, Philadelphia Museum of Art – Yale Univ. Press, 2005; p. 50]
The glass plate of this photograph was sold as one of 2600 "Art in Old Paris" series which Atget sold in 1920 to the Service Photographique des Monuments Historiques, which are currently held by the French Ministry of Culture at the Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie in Yvelins, near Versailles. [https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/memoire/APMH00087712].
Condition: Fine.
Item number: 59
Price: $3,250.00
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