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ATGET / Rue Campagne-Première [in graphite] 17 bis / 15 Neg. #1245","inscribed":"Titled and numbered in graphite, verso top: Versailles 1245","signed":null,"catalograisonne":"Szarkowski/Hambourg 21","creditlinerepro":null,"restrictions":null,"nowebuse":"False","secondaryobjectnumber":null,"campuscollections":"false","on_view":false,"accessionyear":"2004-01-01","newaccession":0,"titles":[],"makers":[{"id":156,"displayname":"Eugène Atget","displaydate":"French, 1857–1927","datebegin":1857,"dateend":1927,"prefix":null,"suffix":null,"role":"Artist","displaymaker":"Eugène Atget, French, 1857–1927","displayorder":1}],"depicted":[],"texts":[{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Gallery Label","textentryhtml":"\r\nAtget recorded Paris and its surroundings at a time when the old was being rapidly replaced by the new. When he photographed this copy of the ancient Medici Venus (Florence, Uffizi)—sculpted for Louis XIV by Nicolas Frémery and placed with other marble sculptures and vases along the Allée Royale of Versailles—the deserted palace was endangered but soon to be restored through the philanthropic support of John D. Rockefeller. Nostalgic romantics, however (such as the poets Robert de Montesquiou and Henri de Régnier or the Russian set designer Alexandre Benois), loved the overgrown trees, lichen-covered marble, and discolored sculptures from another age. </P></SPAN>","remarks":"K4-6 Rotation August 2016"},{"texttype":"Online","textpurpose":"Didactics","textentryhtml":"In just over three decades, the French photographer Eugène Atget made ten thousand photographic negatives that documented the cultural legacy of France and its rapidly changing capital, Paris. Atget considered himself a documentary photographer and marketed his services to artists, architects, libraries, and museums. His diverse portfolio included images of parks, such as this view of the gardens at Versailles. He did not receive widespread recognition until the 1920s, when the American photographer Berenice Abbott published many of his images and championed his work.","remarks":null}],"media":[{"id":85896,"uri":"https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV12342","isprimary":1,"rank":1,"mediatypeid":1,"mediaviewtype":"(not assigned)","restrictions":null,"caption":"Inventory Project"}],"hasimage":"true","bibliography":[{"boilertext":"John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg, <EM>The Work of Atget </EM>(London: Gordon Fraser, 1982).","citation":"John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg, <EM>The Work of Atget </EM>(London: Gordon Fraser, 1982)., pl. 21, p. 57","date":1982,"id":7108,"uri":"https://search.worldcat.org/title/9952402"},{"boilertext":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2004,\" <EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM>&nbsp;64 (2005): p. 91-135.","citation":"\"Acquisitions of the Princeton University Art Museum 2004,\" <EM>Record of the Princeton University Art Museum</EM>&nbsp;64 (2005): p. 91-135., p. 109","date":2005,"id":468,"uri":"https://www.jstor.org/stable/3774838"}],"exhibitions":[{"exhibitionid":1558,"citation":"Two Views: Atget & Friedlander (December 15, 2012–March 10, 2013)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2012-12-15","enddate":"2013-03-10","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1558"},{"exhibitionid":1519,"citation":"1913: The Year of Modernism (Saturday, March 23, 2013 - Sunday, June 23, 2013)","isvirtual":true,"begindate":"2013-03-23","enddate":"2013-06-23","uri":"https://artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/exhibitions/1519"}],"geography":[{"displaygeography":"Place depicted: Europe, France, Versailles, Château de Versailles","code":"Place depicted","continent":"Europe","subcontinent":null,"country":"France","region":null,"state":null,"city":"Versailles","county":null,"subregion":null,"locale":"Château de Versailles","locus":null,"river":null,"excavation":null,"geoname":"http://www.geonames.org/6284980/chateau-de-versailles.html","location":{"lat":"","lon":""}}],"terms":[{"id":2031609,"term":"French","aatid":300111188,"termtype":"Culture"},{"id":2053728,"term":"black-and-white photographs","aatid":300128347,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2053200,"term":"photographs","aatid":300046300,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2152263,"term":"deterioration","aatid":300054106,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053478,"term":"albumen prints","aatid":300127121,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2086025,"term":"palaces","aatid":300005734,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2053525,"term":"collodion prints","aatid":300134696,"termtype":"Classification"},{"id":2192256,"term":"gardens (open spaces)","aatid":300008090,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2055271,"term":"sculptures","aatid":300047203,"termtype":"Subject"},{"id":2154022,"term":"gelatin silver process","aatid":300139114,"termtype":"Techniques"}],"classifications":[{"id":2053525,"classification":"collodion prints"},{"id":2053478,"classification":"albumen prints"},{"id":2053728,"classification":"black-and-white photographs"},{"id":2053200,"classification":"photographs"}],"cultures":[],"cultureterms":[{"id":2031609,"culture":"French"}],"periods":[],"periodterms":[],"attribute_groups":[{"id":2199321,"term":"European Art","termtype":"Collecting Area"},{"id":2199326,"term":"Photography","termtype":"Collecting Area"}],"dimensionelements":[{"element":"Overall","type":"Height","units":"centimeters","dimension":"22.80"},{"element":"Overall","type":"Width","units":"centimeters","dimension":"17.80"}],"packages":[{"packageid":204087,"name":"image_descriptions_Photography-A"},{"packageid":3078,"name":"Web_1913_1-2"},{"packageid":185691,"name":"web_norightsclearance2000-present"},{"packageid":3083,"name":"Web_1913_3-1"}],"primaryimage":["https://media.artmuseum.princeton.edu/iiif/3/collection/INV12342"],"displaymaker":"Eugène Atget, French, 1857–1927","displayculture":null,"displayperiod":null,"caption":"Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927), Vénus par Legros, Versailles, 1923–24. 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