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Saint-Cloud

1926

Eugène Atget

Associated Names

Eugène Atget

Artist, French, 1857 - 1927

The image shows a landscape with a large tree, a stone statue of a figure with a cross, distant leafless trees, a reflective body of water, and a misty horizon. The color palette is soft sepia tones, with bare earth, small heaps, and an overcast sky.

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Artwork overview

Medium

albumen silver print
Credit Line

Gift of Mary and Dan Solomon and Patrons' Permanent Fund
Dimensions

image: 7 x 9 in. (17.8 x 22.9 cm)
Accession Number

2006.133.21

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Mary and Dan Solomon; purchase and gift to NGA, 2006.

Associated Names

Dan and Mary Solomon

Bibliography

1981

Szarkowski, John and Maria Morris Hambourg. The Work of Atget: Vol. 3, The Ancien Regime. New York, 1983, fig. 37, p. 175.

Inscriptions

lower right on negative: 1763 [in reverse]

Wikidata ID

Q64147451

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