Former Monastery of the English Benedictines. Rue Saint-Jacques, 269
(Ancien Monastère des Bénédictins anglais. Rue Saint-Jacques, 269)
(1905)
from the Art in old Paris series 1898–1927
- Medium
- albumen silver photograph
- Measurements
- 17.8 × 23.1 cm (image) 18.1 × 23.1 cm (sheet)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Inscription
- incised in negative in reverse (in image) l.l.: 499 (...illeg.)
- Accession Number
- 2020.447
- Department
- International Photography
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of Patrick Pound through the Australian Government's Cultural Gifts Program, 2020
Public domain - Gallery location
- Late 19th & early 20th Century Paintings & Decorative Arts Gallery
Level 2, NGV International - About this work
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While Eugène Atget is best known for his documentation of particular sites, focusing on architectural details, domestic interiors and civic spaces that appear to be largely unpopulated, he was also an avid chronicler of people working on the streets of Paris and their so-called ‘small trades’ – that is, people selling their wares and tradespeople working throughout the city. Eighty of Atget’s photographs were published as postcards between 1904 and 1907 in a set titled The Small Trades of Paris. Each card depicts a vivid scene of city life, capturing a sense of the bustling trades and people that brought a vibrancy to Paris at the turn of the twentieth century.
