Rue du Regard (1899): Art, History and Details

Rue du Regard (1899) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Despite modernization, many historic sites were left intact including some hôtels particuliers or private mansions. This entrance, which looks similar today, led into the courtyard for the “petit hôtel de Guiche,” built in the 1700s, which adjoined the larger “hôtel de Guiche.” Fragments of those buildings have been incorporated into the modern structures that now occupy the land behind the portal. The houses were named for the de Guiche family, aristocrats that occupied them in the mid- 1700s. Their son was guillotined in 1794 following the French Revolution.

Object facts

• Title: Rue du Regard
• Date: 1899
• Creator attribution: Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: albumen print, gold toned
• Dimensions: Image: 21.9 x 18.1 cm (8 5/8 x 7 1/8 in.); Matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.)
• Collection: Photography
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1980.35

A detail from the museum

Despite modernization of Paris during the Second Empire, many historic sites were left intact including some hôtels particuliers or private mansions.

Collection credit

Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 68, no. 6 (June 1981): 163–219.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

View the collection record

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