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| Keywords: Eugène Atget, Hôtel de Lauzun, 1905.jpg Artwork en As part of the strong preservationist movement of the 1890s and early 1900s Atget made thousands of views of old Paris many prints of which he sold to libraries museums and archives About 1904 he began photographing the interiors of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century hôtels or town houses The Hôtel Lauzun belonged to the city making it more accessible to Atget than most privately owned residences The glare of the sun in the immense mirror above the fireplace obscures details of the richly carved mantelpiece and woodwork While this effect makes the photograph far from an ideal document the refracted reflection renders this otherwise straightforward view poetic and infuses it with a sense of immanence 1905 Albumen silver print from glass negative Size cm 18 4 22 0 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history credit line Gift of Virginia M Zabriskie 1992 266753 Inscribed in pencil on verso at L BL R Hotel de Lauzun 4980 ; EA 9076 - 7 ; Box 20 accession number 1992 5115 PD-old-auto 1927 Hôtel de Lauzun Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Photographs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1905 photographs | ||||
