Eugène Atget
Saint-Cloud

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Artist Eugène Atget (French, 1857–1927)French, 1857–1927

CultureFrench

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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)

Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Museum Collectors

Object number81.106

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Department

Photography

Object Type

PHOTOGRAPHS

DescriptionThe
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]

printed bottom right corner on the image[in reverse]: 1252

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