Jean Eugène Auguste Atget

Date/place of birth

12. February 1857 LibourneFrance

Day/place of death

04. August 1927 ParisFrance

Jean Eugène Auguste Atget - biography

Atget envisaged devoting himself to photography after having tried in vain to pursue a career as an actor, opening a commercial studio in Paris in 1890 which provided artists with photographs of landscapes, monuments and reproductions of paintings, among other subject matters. From 1898 he portrayed the Old Paris, which was destined to disappear as a result of modernization. Determined to protect this unprecedented documentation, the French Government bought Atget’s plates in 1920.

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Jean Eugène Auguste Atget Juvisy, Belles Fontaines €13.420
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget Cour Ovale, Fontainebleau €4.960
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget Hotel Ste Anne, Paris €4.760
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget Passage des Eaux entre la rue Raynouard et le quai de Passy, Paris (16ème arr.) €3.780
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget Quai d'Orléans, Ile Saint-Louis €3.720
Jean Eugène Auguste Atget Au Mortier d'Or, 44 Rue des Lombards €3.720