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| Keywords: Eugène Atget, The Panthéon - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en Eugène Atget made this atmospheric study across the place Sainte-Geneviève toward the back of the Panthéon a church boldly designed to combine the splendor of Greece with the lightness of Gothic churches The church's powerful colonnaded dome Atget's primary point of interest hovers in the background truncated by the building in the left foreground In order to make the fog-veiled Panthéon visible when printing this negative Atget had to expose the paper for a long period of time As a consequence of the long printing the two buildings in the foreground are overexposed appearing largely as black silhouettes Together they frame the Panthéon rendered entirely in muted grays This photograph exceeds documentation to become more a study of mood and atmospheric conditions than of architecture 1924 Gelatin silver chloride print on printing-out paper Image 17 8 x 22 6 cm 7 x 8 7/8 in Mat 36 2 x 48 9 cm 14 1/4 x 19 1/4 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 69994 Markings Atget wet stamp imprinted verso Inscriptions Inscribed verso print in pencil title and negative number 6479 dimensions for reproduction credit line accession number 90 XM 64 34 PD-old-auto 1927 1924 in Paris 1924 photographs Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum Rue de la Montagne-Sainte-Geneviève Paris Historical images of Panthéon de Paris | ||||
