id: 159022 accession number: 1995.229 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.229 updated: 2025-02-09 05:15:52.394000 Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps at the Beach at Royan, 1926. Jacques-Henri Lartigue (French, 1894–1986). Gelatin silver print from gelatin dry plate negative; image: 10.6 x 7.5 cm (4 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.); matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1995.229 Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue © Ministère de la Culture - France / AAJHL title: Sacha Guitry and Yvonne Printemps at the Beach at Royan title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1926 creation date earliest: 1926 creation date latest: 1926 current location: creditline: John L. Severance Fund copyright: Photograph by Jacques Henri Lartigue © Ministère de la Culture - France / AAJHL --- culture: France, 20th century technique: gelatin silver print from gelatin dry plate negative department: Photography collection: PH - French 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Jacques-Henri Lartigue (French, 1894–1986) - artist Jacques-Henri Lartigue French, 1894-1986 Born in Courbevoie, near Paris, Jacques-Henri Lartigue was seven years old when his father gave him a hand camera as a Christmas gift. The young Lartigue enthusiastically photographed the privileged world in which he lived, capturing scenes of daily life: elegant men and women promenading on the Bois de Boulogne, along the beach, or at the races; his older brother's exploits with a homemade glider and bobsleigh; the exciting speed of automobiles and flying machines. Fascinated by the world around him, he took numerous photographs, many unposed, preserving in these childhood images moments from the carefree, prosperous world of the Belle Epoque. Following studies at the Académie Julian, Lartigue's interest turned to painting. His photographs remained stored in private albums, known only to family and friends, until 1963 when the Museum of Modern Art, New York, held an exhibition of his work. Since that time a number of books and exhibitions have featured his images, and in 1979 Lartigue donated his work to the French government. M.M. --- measurements: Image: 10.6 x 7.5 cm (4 3/16 x 2 15/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in ink on verso: "Plage de Royan, 1925"; in pencil on verso: "Guitry, Sacha + [obscured] translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 220 url: --- IMAGES