Hôtel de Lauzun, Quai d'Anjou
Eugène Atget French
Not on view
About 1904 Atget began photographing the interiors of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century hôtels particuliers, or town houses, including the Hôtel de Lauzun, on the Île Saint-Louis in Paris. During the 1840s the poets Charles Baudelaire and Théophile Gautier had rented upstairs apartments in the house, which also served as the site of many drug-induced experiences of the infamous club des hashischins. Atget was less interested in such Romantic exploits than in documenting the decor of the house, including its Neoclassical paneling. Much of this boiserie was dismantled and sold off during a twentieth-century renovation and was ultimately acquired by The Met in 1976.
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