Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00006656Porteuse de pain, from the series "Small Trades"
Inscriptions
Unmarked recto; inscribed verso, upper center, in graphite: Porteuse de pain ; verso, upper right, in graphite: 391(?) verso, lower left, in graphite: 6 3/4 x 8 1/2
Exhibition history
Art Institute of Chicago, “Photographs from the Julien Levy Collection: Starting with Atget,” December 11, 1976–February 20, 1977; traveled to the International Center of Photography, New York, April 21-May 29, 1977; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, November 4-December 18 1977; Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, January 13-Ferbruary 26, 1978; Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois, March 16-April 30, 1978; and Cincinnati Art Museum, November 17-December 24, 1978. (David Travis) Art Institute of Chicago, "Bystander: A History of Street Photography," December 10, 1994-April 16, 1995; traveled to the San Jose Museum of Art, January 16-April 4, 1999 (Chicago only). (Colin Westerbeck) Art Institute of Chicago, "Paris: Photographs from a Time that Was," August 13–November 6, 2005. (David Travis)
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget / French, 1857–1927
- Date
- c. 1899/1900
- Medium
- Albumen print
- Dimensions
- Image/paper: 22 × 18 cm (8 11/16 × 7 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Photograph
- Classification
- albumen silver print
- Place
- Libourne
- Department
- Photography and Media
- Credit line
- Julien Levy Collection, Special Photography Acquisition Fund
- Accession no.
- 1979.61
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