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Maurice Utrillo Paris, France, French, 1883 - 1955
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Hôtel Scipion Sardini, R[ue] Scipion
Eugène Atget (French, 1857 - 1927)
French
Paris, France (Place Created)
March 1925
Albumen silver print
86.XM.23
17.8 × 22.2 cm (7 × 8 3/4 in.)
Leafless black trees and sunlit white snow strikingly contrast with the muted gray tones of a brick and stone building in this wintry photograph. Although Eugène Atget made his photographs early in the morning when the sun was strong, the season's dim light resulted in this atmospheric portrait.
Atget intended his photographs to be used as source material for artists, such as the noteworthy painter Maurice Utrillo, who favored orderly architectural subjects. Utrillo modeled a 1926 painting on this image, altering the season to spring and adding a few spindly shrubs and several figures.
Maurice Utrillo Paris, France, French, 1883 - 1955
Petrides, Paul. L'oeuvre Complet, vol. II (Paris, P. Pétridès, 1959-), pp. 462-63, Maurice Utrillo directly modeled a painting of 1926 on this photograph.
Szarkowski, John and Maria Morris Hambourg. The Work of Atget. 4 vols. (New York: Museum of Modern Art; Boston: Distributed by New York Graphic Society, 1981-1985) vol. 2, pl. 102.
Baldwin, Gordon. In Focus: Eugène Atget: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000), pl. 40.