Saint-Cloud
Eugène Atget French
Not on view
Among Atget's most compelling images are those made in the formal gardens of the royal palace at Saint-Cloud, laid out in the seventeenth century by Louis XIV's landscape architect André Le Nôtre. (The château itself was destroyed during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.) Here, Atget focused less on the fountains and statuary than on the abstract masses of dark foliage and their reflection on the still water's surface.