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Versailles
Creator
Eugène AtgetFrench Photographer · 1857–1927
All works by this person →Eugène Atget never called himself a photographer; instead he preferred "author-producer." A private, almost reclusive man, Atget first tried his hand at painting and acting, then began to photograph *vieux Paris* (Old Paris) in 1898. He photographed in part to create "documents," as he called his photographs, of architecture and urban views, but he supported himself by selling these photographs to
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- 1904
- Medium
- Gelatin silver chloride print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 816b2cc0-6539-4ddd-b246-feafbf7aefc0
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View of a bust of a woman on a plinth, in a park. The woman's upper body is draped in fabric, revealing one breast. She gazes upward. Behind the sculpture is a lattice with hedges that have lost their leaves. In the distance is a central fountain featuring mythological figures. Trees are visible, most without foliage.
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