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Trianon, Versailles

Artist Eugène Atget (French, 1857-1927)

CultureFrench

Date1923-1924

MediumAlbumen print

DimensionsOverall, Image: 9 × 7 in. (22.9 × 17.8 cm)
Overall, Mat: 20 × 16 in. (50.8 × 40.6 cm)

InscribedVerso, written in Atget's hand in pencil: Trianon 1212; Ink Stamp: E. ATGET; Rue Campagne-Pemiere 17; In pencil: Dupl 1 matted; Lower right in pencil: MOMA DUPE; 2002 SMM

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. by Exchange

Object number2002.5.6

Not on view

DescriptionThis is a vintage print of a house by a pond in Versailles, France. The vegetated pond is in the foreground and the small two-story house is left of center in the background, surrounded by trees.

ProvenanceEugene Atget; Berenice Abbott and Julian Levy, 1927-1968; sold to Museum of Modern Art, 1968-2002; Chrysler Museum of Art purchase, Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. by Exchange, 2002. Published ReferencesChrysler Museum, "Chrysler Museum of Art Acquires Rare Atget Photographs," http://news.amn.org/amn_home.jsp, Art Museum Network News, October 18, 2002: http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=1105. William Howard, _Atget's Gardens_ (New York: Doubleday & Company, 1979), fig. 21. IBSN: 0-385-15319-8