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"tombstone": "Versailles, Fountain of Triumphant France, 1904. Eug\u00e8ne Atget (French, 1857\u20131927). Albumen print, gold toned; image: 22 x 18.2 cm (8 11/16 x 7 3/16 in.); matted: 45.7 x 35.6 cm (18 x 14 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund, 1985.114",
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"inscription": "Written in pencil on verso: \"Versailles\"; \"#6493\"",
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"title": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art",
"description": "Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 26-June 16, 2005).",
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"description": "CMA, February 12 - April 20, 1986: \"Year in Review 1985,\" CMA Bulletin, 73 (Feb. 1986), p. 64, no. 57.",
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"description": "From 1901 until his death in 1927, Atget devoted much of his time to documenting ch\u00e2teaus and parks in and around Paris. Initially and most frequently, he was attracted to the gardens of Versailles, first working there until 1906. This intriguing detail of the Fountain of Triumphant France isolates two of its three allegorical figures: the seated representation of the French Empire behind Jean-Baptiste Tubi\u2019s sculpture denoting Spain. The fountain was commissioned by Louis XIV to celebrate the French victory over Spain and Holland. The sharply focused composition filled with decorative and sculptural details is typical of Atget\u2019s early photographs, which he understood to be \"documents for artists\"\u2014raw material for painters, sculptors, stage designers, and craftsmen.",
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.",
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"biography": "Eug\u00e8ne Atget French, 1857-1927\r\n\r\nRelatively unknown to the public during his lifetime, Eug\u00e8ne Atget is today an icon -- one of the most celebrated and influential photographers of the 20th century. Born near Bordeaux, Atget first directed his efforts to painting and the stage before turning to photography shortly before 1890. He is best known for his documentary scenes of Paris and Versailles, but he photographed a number of other sites as well. Atget viewed his work as a historical and aesthetic record, regarding it as documentation for use by artists. Indeed, several artists are known to have painted from his images.\r\n\tUsing relatively unsophisticated, even outdated equipment, Atget achieved a view of French architecture and culture that is both personal and factual. Along with the rediscovery of the images of Mathew Brady in the early 20th century, the recognition of Atget's artistic accomplishments shortly before his death by Berenice Abbott, Man Ray, and others helped turn photographers away from the mannered style of pictorialism toward the visual and technical clarity of modernism. Marked by a selective and highly individual method, his is among the most widely shown, published, and recognized work in photography today. T.W.F.",
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