Montmartre, 2 Rue de Calvaire

Photography and Media

1921

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget
French, 1857–1927

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Photography and Media

Artist: Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget
Title: Montmartre, 2 Rue de Calvaire
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1921
Medium: Albumen print
Inscriptions: Unmarked recto; stamped and inscribed verso, on mount, upper center, in pink ink and graphite: "PHOTO E. ATGET / COLLECTION BERENICE ABBOTT / 1 W. 67th ST. / COPYRIGHT [stamped in pink ink] / 6258 / Montmartre / 2 rue de Calvaire [inscribed in graphite]"
Dimensions: Image/paper: 21.5 × 17 cm (8 1/2 × 6 3/4 in.); Mount: 36.6 × 28.9 cm (14 7/16 × 11 7/16 in.)
Credit Line: Wirt D. Walker Fund and Laura T. Magnuson Endowment
Reference Number: 1980.350

Groom, Gloria and J. Russell Harris. 1989. “Tour de France: Paintings, Photographs, Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection.” Exh. cat. The Art Institute of Chicago. n.pag.
Travis, David. 2005. “Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was.” Exh. cat. Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press. p. 54.

Art Institute of Chicago, “Tour de France: Paintings, Photographs, Prints and Drawings from the Permanent Collection,” December 9, 1989-March 4, 1990.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was,” August 13-November 6, 2005, (David Travis)
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs by the Score: Personal visions twenty-some years apart,” October 7, 2006-January 14, 2007. (David Travis)

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