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This black-and-white photograph shows a storefront with multiple mannequins displayed in the window. The mannequins don't have heads or arms, and they show torsos with thin waists and round hips. Various corsets with bows and ruffles are arranged neatly on the mannequins seen through the windows. On the left, the door of the storefront is partially open, and one mannequin in a corset hangs in front of the door. The sign above reads "CORSETS," with smaller signage on the window and door. The window on the left of the door appears to show folded corsets or other corsetry accessories.
National Gallery of Art · Photograph
Boulevard de Strasbourg, Corsets
Eugène Atget
- Date
- 1912, printed later
- Medium
- gelatin silver print
- Dimensions
- image/sheet: 23.18 × 17 cm (9 1/8 × 6 11/16 in.)
- Classification
- Photograph
- Accession number
- 2015.19.4311
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Marchal E. Landgren, 1983)
- Time span
- 1901 to 1925
- Department
- CPH
Subjects and terms
- French
- gelatin silver print
- Paris
- Window
- Storefront
- streetscape
- architecture
Provenance
Berenice Abbott, New York; Marchal E. Landgren [d. 1983], Washington, DC and New York (through Julien Levy Gallery, New York); bequest to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (through Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA), 1983; acquired by NGA, 2015.
Inscription
on verso, center stamped in red ink: EUGENE ATGET PHOTOGRAPH / COLLECTION BERENICE ABBOTT; lower center: COPYRIGHT; by Corcoran Gallery of Art, bottom right corner in graphite: 1983.65
NGA object ID 179424. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.