Parc de Saint Cloud (Saint Cloud Park)

From the Getty Museum record

> From 1904 until the end of his life, but particularly during the 1920s, Eugène Atget often made photographs of the gardens at the site of the palace of Saint-Cloud, just outside Paris (see also [90.XM.64.25](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/63460/eugene-atget-saint-cloud-tree-roots-saint-cloud-park-french-negative-1906-print-1920s/), [90.XM.64.51](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/63486/eugene-atget-st-cloud-french-1915-1919/), [90.XM.64.60](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/63495/eugene-atget-parc-de-saint-cloud-french-1904/), [90.XM.64.61](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/63496/eugene-atget-parc-de-saint-cloud-french-1904/), [90.XM.125](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/64720/eugene-atget-saint-cloud-french-about-1920/), [2002.37.11](https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/172736/eugene-atget-saint-cloud-park-paris-french-1924/)). They were designed by the great French landscape architect André Le Nôtre (1613-1700), the principal inventor of the classical "French garden." Most famous for the layout of the gardens at Versailles, which he devised for Louis XIV, Le Nôtre worked at Saint-Cloud for the king's brother, the duc d'Orléans. In both settings he used similar formal elements: reflecting pools, fountains, symmetrically placed urns and statuary, and massive blocks of clipped shrubbery bordering long axial vistas. > > Adapted from *Eugène Atget*, In Focus: Photographs from the J. Paul Getty Museum by Gordon Baldwin (Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Museum, 2000), 62. ©2000, J. Paul Getty Trust.