MAKE A MEME View Large Image Eugène Atget, Storefront, rue Saint-Louis-en-I'Ile, 1901-02.jpg Artwork en The elaborately worked iron on this storefront dates to the 1600s evoking a time when literacy was uncommon and symbols were a more effective means of conveying an ...
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Keywords: Eugène Atget, Storefront, rue Saint-Louis-en-I'Ile, 1901-02.jpg Artwork en The elaborately worked iron on this storefront dates to the 1600s evoking a time when literacy was uncommon and symbols were a more effective means of conveying an idea Above the shop's door a baby Bacchus the Roman god of wine and revelry sit astride a cask surrounded by grapevines announcing to passerby that they could procure wine from the merchant inside From behind the glass panes of the shop door a waitress peers out at the photographer in the street Though Eugène Atget was far more interested in documenting the facade of the wine shop than the waitress's image her presence adds an engaging aspect to the composition 1901 “02 Albumen print Image 22 1 x 17 8 cm 8 11/16 x 7 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 71245 Inscribed in negative negative number 4449 ; inscribed verso in pencil title and negative number Secondary Inscription Inscribed verso print in pencil in unknown later hand dealer's inventory number EA-8184-2 credit line accession number 90 XM 124 13 PD-old-auto 1927 Rue Saint-Louis-en-l'ÃŽle Paris Shop signs in Paris Glass doors in Paris Waitresses of France 1901 in Paris 1902 in Paris Restaurants photographed in 1901 Restaurants photographed in 1902 Albumen prints Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum Bacchus
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