Keywords: Eugène Atget, The Facade of Saint Julien le Pauvre - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork en In this photograph of an alley leading to the facade of Saint Julien le Pauvre a church built in the 1100s the viewer's eye follows along the sloped gutter in the center of a cobblestone street As the drain veers left the viewer's eye shifts to the church's guardian comfortably seated by the entrance and gazing at the camera The extreme clarity of Eugène Atget's photograph recorded the cracked and peeling details of the weather-beaten facade and the missing glass from its rose window Clearly a building had once stood to the left of where Atget placed his camera although all that remains is a boarded-up hollow space 1898 Albumen silver print Image 21 6 x 17 8 cm 8 1/2 x 7 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 71230 Inscription Inscribed verso print in pencil title and negative number 3539 Secondary Inscription Inscribed verso print in red crayon in unknown later hand 154 credit line accession number 90 XM 123 PD-old-auto 1927 1898 in Paris 1898 photographs Photographs of Paris by Eugène Atget Photographs in the Getty Museum Église Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre |