Versailles, Bosquet de l'Arc de Triomphe, 1904, No. 6483
Albumen silver print from glass negative, from the artist's series on sculptures on the grounds of Versailles. Annotated in Atget's hand in pencil on verso "Versailles - Bosquet de L'arc de Triomphe - La France par Tuby" (sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Tuby), with his inventory number "6483"; 1904; 8 1/2 x 7 inches (215 x 178 mm). Ex. collection Phiadelphia Museum of Art, with their accession number in pencil crossed out verso lower left. In fine condition.
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/APMH00087788].
Condition: Fine.
Item number: 91
Price: $3,000.00
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