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The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2002.68", "current_location": null, "title": "The Park at Sceaux [April 1925, 7a.m.]", "creation_date": "1925", "creation_date_earliest": 1925, "creation_date_latest": 1925, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "France, 20th century" ], "technique": "arrowroot print, gold-toned", "support_materials": [], "department": "Photography", "collection": "PH - French 20th Century", "type": "Photograph", "measurements": "Image: 22.9 x 17.6 cm (9 x 6 15/16 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 40.6 cm (20 x 16 in.)", "dimensions": { "image": { "height": 0.229, "height_inch": 9, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.176, "width_inch": 6, "width_inch_fraction": 0.9375 }, "matted": { "height": 0.508, "height_inch": 20, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.406, "width_inch": 16, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "written in pencil on verso: \"Parc de Sceaux\"; \"(possible initials)\"?", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 178867, "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).", "opening_date": "2005-02-26T00:00:00" } ], "legacy": [ { "description": "Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; February 26 - June 16, 2005 . \"Drawn with Light: Pioneering French Photography from the Cleveland Museum of Art\".", "opening_date": "2005-02-26T00:00:00" } ] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "David Tunick, New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "September 3, 2002", "sortorder": 2 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": null, "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "After the turn of the 20th century, Atget began to photograph many of the magnificent ch\u00e2teaux and parks surrounding Paris. This photograph is from a series taken of the abandoned estate and garden at Sceaux in 1925 and is considered his rarest and finest. It records that fleeting moment when a tree's sculptural form and the beginning stubble of its spring foliage are both visible. Shooting directly into early morning light, Atget captured the stately trees casting long, shimmering reflections on the placid pond surface. By visually compressing the background with the foreground, he created the illusion that this scene took place on a single plane. The use of arrowroot paper, characterized by a velvety texture and cool gray tonal range, enhances the print's atmospheric quality. This picture acknowledges Atget's unmatched ability to combine descriptive information and expression subtly, thereby creating mysterious images of breathtaking beauty.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79986402" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2002.68-the-park-at-sceaux-a" ] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.68", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.68/2002.68_web.jpg", "width": "694", "height": "893", "filesize": "418434", "filename": "2002.68_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.68/2002.68_print.jpg", "width": "2641", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4743870", "filename": "2002.68_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2002.68/2002.68_full.tif", "width": "3702", "height": "4766", "filesize": "52952260", "filename": "2002.68_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 162339, "creators": [ { "id": 23, "description": "Eug\u00e8ne Atget (French, 1857\u20131927)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "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.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1857", "death_year": "1927", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2002-09-03T00:00:00", "sortable_date": 1925, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "1925", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-05-29 08:25:49.392000" } }