Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris

Jacques-Henri Lartigue · January 15,1911

This one's called Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris — a photograph by the French artist Jacques-Henri Lartigue, January fifteenth, nineteen eleven. A gelatin silver print — the standard black-and-white photograph of the twentieth century, paper coated in gelatin holding light-sensitive silver, developed by hand in a tray.

Medium Gelatin silver print · Dimensions 11 9/16 × 15 11/16" (29.4 × 39.8 cm) · Credit Gift of the artist

Hanging beside it in Gallery 501: Grandcamp, Evening, Drawing of Scene 15: In The Interior of The Moon. The Giant Mushroom Grotto of the 1902 film A Trip to the Moon (Le Voyage dans la lune)

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Study of a Baboon, Sow

More by Jacques-Henri Lartigue here: Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris