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.
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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.