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Versailles-Parc (The Park, 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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- 1920
- Medium
- Albumen silver print
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- dfa01c4a-0a45-499a-962b-0aa6570f868f
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This statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of the harvest, with a sheaf of grain and bouquet of flowers, gazes across an avenue of leafless trees in the deserted garden of Versailles. Although this park had once been a lively and luscious playground of the royal family, Eugène Atget's photograph conveys a somber mood. The absence of people and activity has transformed the garden into a place of isolation. The gardens at Versailles were of great importance to Louis XIV, who oversaw their design and visited them daily when he was at the retreat south of Paris. The king himself wrote a guidebook of the gardens for visitors in 1689, which was revised several times until 1705.
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