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Keywords: Eugène Atget, Cour de Rohan - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en Eugène Atget made this moody study from a higher vantage point than he usually employed This departure from his usual practice--a street-level perspective--suggests that he may have been commissioned to photograph this courtyard where a leafless tree struggles upward as a living contrast to its crumbling surroundings In a letter to the director of the École des Beaux-Arts Atget declared that his collection meaning his prints and negatives included all of Old Paris To Atget it was important not to record popular destinations and fashionable districts but to create artistic documents of old hotels and historic or curious houses These urban views were ideal images for his documents for artists a collection of photographs available for purchase by artists as source material for their work 1922 Albumen silver print Image 22 x 18 cm 8 5/8 x 7 1/8 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 62232 Inscription erroneous Title and negative number 6333 inscribed verso print in pencil credit line accession number 84 XM 1034 8 PD-old-auto 1927 1922 in Paris 1922 photographs Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum Cour de Rohan Paris Leafless trees
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