Rue Mouffetard

Henri Cartier-Bresson

1954

Titles Rue Mouffetard (Proper)
Artist Henri Cartier-Bresson, French, 1908 - 2004
Medium gelatin silver print
Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Bequest of Rena Hill Selfe, AFI.8.1996
Object Name photograph
Classification Photographs

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A skeleton figure stands above two human figures. The skeleton pushes down on the human figure on the left. The skeleton grabs the chin of the human figure on the right.

Bust-length view of sitter, at a slight angle to picture plane (left proper shoulder receding slightly). Head is tilted to proper left. Hair and features indicated in detail, while body remains summarily treated; brooch(?) at neckline.

Still Life with Game Birds, Cornelis Mahu, oil on canvas

Saint Mark the Evangelist, Attributed to Jan Lievensz, oil on canvas

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