Artist
Eugène Atget(French, 1857–1927)French, 1857–1927
CultureFrench
Titles
- Saint-Cloud
Date1924
PlaceParis, France
MediumAlbumen silver print from glass negative
DimensionsImage: 6 15/16 × 8 15/16 in. (17.7 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 8 15/16 in. (18 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 7 1/16 × 8 15/16 in. (18 × 22.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Museum Collectors
Object number81.106
Non exposé
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Department
PhotographyObject Type
gardens of the Château de Saint Cloud, the royal residence just west of Paris,
were laid out in the 17th century by André Le Nôtre, who also designed the
gardens at Versailles as landscape architect to Louis XIV. The chateau itself,
favored by Marie-Antoinette, Napoléon Bonaparte, and Napoléon III, was
destroyed in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian War, but the gardens remain intact
to this day. Atget made many of his most lyrical and abstract landscape
photographs at Saint Cloud.
Provenance[Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York]; purchased by MFAH, 1981.
Exhibition HistoryExhibited "Evocative Presence: Twentieth Century Photographs in the Museum Collection", The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February 27 - May 1, 1988
Exhibited: "Patrons Choice: The Silver Anniversary of The Museum Collectors, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, September 18, 2004 - January 30, 2005. Millennium Gallery and Public Corridor.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Inscribed in negative, recto, bottom right corner: 1252 [in reverse]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, left edge reading vertically: St Cloud
Inscribed in pencil, verso, top left reading vertically: 1252 // DUPL // IMATTED
Stamped in black with addition in pencil, verso, center right: E. ATGET // Rue Campagne-Première, 17bis[pencil]
Inscribed in pencil, verso, left edge reading vertically: St Cloud
Inscribed in pencil, verso, top left reading vertically: 1252 // DUPL // IMATTED
Stamped in black with addition in pencil, verso, center right: E. ATGET // Rue Campagne-Première, 17bis[pencil]
printed bottom right corner on the image[in reverse]: 1252
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