About This Artwork

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget
French, 1857–1927

Fête du Trône, 1925

Gelatin silver printing out paper print
17.9 x 22.5 cm
Marked on verso: "Fête du Trône/68"
Stamped on verso
Julien Levy Collection, Special Photography Acquisition Fund, 1979.56

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

AIC, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977. (David Travis)

Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography,” May 7–July 30, 1989; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 16–November 26, 1989; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990.

AIC, "Bystander: A History of Street Photography," December 10, 1994-April 16, 1995.

New York, NY, The Equitable Gallery, "Julien Levy: Portrait of a Gallery," August 13–October 31, 1998.

AIC, "Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was," August 13–November 6, 2005. (David Travis).

AIC, Gallery 10 Permanent Collection Rotation, August 2011–April 2012.

Publication History

Travis, David. 1976. “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget.” Exh. cat. p. 23, cat. 7.

Szarkowski, John and Maria Morris Hambourg. 1982. "Modern Times.” Vol. 4 of The Work of Atget. Museum of Modern Art/New York Graphic Society/Little, Brown and Company. cover. p. 152. pl. 116. (other print of this image)

Greenough, Sarah, Joel Snyder, David Travis and Colin Westerbeck. 1989. “On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography.” Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art/The Art Institute of Chicago. p. 293, pl. 233.

Travis, David. 2005. “Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 53.