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| Keywords: Eugène Atget, Staircase, Montmartre - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en Historians have suggested that the solitary tree served as a kind of self-portrait in Eugène Atget's photographs Trees were a favorite subject of the reclusive and private photographer and they appear often as silent witnesses in his views of Paris and its environs In a busy architecture study such as this one the lone winter-bare tree dominates the composition its branches drawn carefully on the blank slate of sky The old neighborhood's bleak textures of mildew decaying wood and plaster and scarred stone fill three-quarters of the frame while the few signs of nature such as the tree and the modest garden of the house at the left hold forth a promise of seasonal renewal 1924 Albumen silver print Image 21 8 x 17 8 cm 8 9/16 x 7 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 71233 Inscription Inscribed verso print in pencil title and negative number 6258 Secondary Inscription Inscribed verso print in pencil in unknown later hand dealer's inventory number credit line accession number 90 XM 124 1 PD-old-auto 1927 1924 in Paris 1924 photographs Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum Stairs in Montmartre | ||||
