Parc de Saint Cloud. Eugène Atget, photographer (French, 1857 - 1927) 1904 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 , , , , , ). 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 Sai
Parc de Saint Cloud. Eugène Atget, photographer (French, 1857 - 1927) 1904 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 , , , , , ). 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.\n> \n> \n\nAdapted 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. Inscription: Title and negative number inscribed verso print. Secondary Inscription: Inscribed verso print in the hand of André Jammes: publication notes.
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