Cleveland Museum of Art
Versailles, Chaste Venus
Eugène AtgetLinkedCulture matchlcp-d478b91f3d3c
- Date
- 1922–1923
- Medium
- albumen print, gold toned
- Culture
- France, 20th century
- Department
- Photography
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 152223
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
During the first quarter of the 20th century, Eugène Atget photographed the French urban experience. Periodically, from 1901 to 1926, Atget was particularly attracted to the grounds and gardens at the palace of Versailles, photographing its walks, fountains, and statues during different seasons. An eerie silence and mysteriousness frequently suffuses his images, as it does in this haunting photograph of Antoine Coysevox's bronze sculpture of Venus, positioned on a raised plinth facing the palace's garden facade. With the placement of his camera, Atget brought a carefully ordered harmony to the composition through the alignment of various architectural and sculptural elements.
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- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Provenance
- Estate of Eugène Atget; Julien Levy Collection
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