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Eugène Atget
French, 1857–1927
Before 1900
An albumen silver print by Eugène Atget that quietly documents a horse held on a lead, part of his effort to systematically record the everyday sights of Paris.
The image arrests you with the horse’s statuesque, compact profile set against a dark stand of trees, warm sepia tones softening details while the taut lead and a slightly blurred tail hint at a briefly staged, lived moment.
One of many images in Atget’s exhaustive visual inventory of turn‑of‑the‑century Paris, it helped establish photography as a tool for documentary archiving and later inspired modernist and Surrealist attention to ordinary scenes.
Medium
Albumen silver print
Dimensions
Approx. 7 1/16 × 8 9/16" (18 × 21.8 cm)
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Credit
Abbott-Levy Collection. Acquired through the generosity of Shirley C. Burden, and Family of Man Fund
Accession
1.1969.4290
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