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Saint-Cloud

July 1921
Not on view
Among Atget's most compelling images are those made in the formal gardens of the royal palace at Saint-Cloud, laid out in the seventeenth century by Louis XIV's landscape architect André Le Nôtre. (The château itself was destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.) Here, Atget focused less on the fountains and statuary than on the abstract masses of dark foliage and their reflection on the still water's surface.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Saint-Cloud
  • Artist: Eugène Atget (French, Libourne 1857–1927 Paris)
  • Date: July 1921
  • Medium: Albumen silver print from glass negative
  • Dimensions: Image: 17.5 x 21.5 cm (6 7/8 x 8 7/16 in.)
    Mount: 37.1 x 28.7 cm (14 5/8 x 11 5/16 in.)
  • Classification: Photographs
  • Credit Line: Gilman Collection, Purchase, Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee Gift, 2005
  • Object Number: 2005.100.546
  • Curatorial Department: Photographs

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