Saint-Cloud

1926

Eugène Atget

Associated Names
Eugène Atget

Artist, French, 1857 - 1927

The image depicts a park landscape with a tree and a statue close to the viewer. The scene includes an ornamental pond and pathway, surrounded by rows of trees in the distance. The sky appears hazy, suggesting an early spring or late autumn setting. The image has a sepia-toned palette, with soft, diffused light creating contrast between the foreground silhouettes and the background.

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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

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

Associated Names

Exhibition History

2015

  • In Light of the Past: Celebrating Twenty-Five Years of Collecting Photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, May 3 – July 26, 2015

Bibliography

1981

  • Szarkowski, John and Maria Morris Hambourg. The Work of Atget: Vol. 3, The Ancien Regime. New York, 1983, pl. 83, p. 119.

Inscriptions

on verso, upper left in graphite: St. Cloud; upper right in graphite: 1262; lower center, artist stamp: E.ATGET / Rue Campagne-Premiere [with graphite added] 17 bis; lower left in graphite with a line through it: 1.69.418 / MOMA; lower right in graphite: MOMA / DUPE SHLI / 2002

Wikidata ID

Q64147453

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