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Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget — Versailles, L'Eau par Legras

Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget

Versailles, L'Eau par Legras

1901

Legras's allegorical representation of water itself reflects the baroque fascination with transforming abstract concepts into concrete sculptural forms for garden decoration.

Medium
Albumen print

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Jean-Eugène-Auguste Atget, Versailles, L'Eau par Legras, 1901

Legras's allegorical representation of water itself reflects the baroque fascination with transforming abstract concepts into concrete sculptural forms for garden decoration.

Medium
Albumen print
Year
1901
Seen at
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Related themes

Monochrome, French, Albumen Print, Garden, Documentary, Architectural, Versailles, Water Feature, Landscape, Pictorialism

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