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(French, 1857-1927) parc de SAINT-CLOUD numbered "6503" in negative titled and numbered "Parc de St Cloud 6503" by the artist in pencil on verso annotated "PHOTO E. ATGET" in red wax pencil on verso vintage gold chloride toned printing-out paper 615/16 x 83/4 in. (17.5 x 22.1 cm) 1904 PROVENANCE Edwynn Houk Gallery, NEW YORK LITERATURE Hans Georg Puttnies, ATGET, Cologne, 1980, p. 48, no. 43 (illustrated) John Szarkowski and Maria Morris Hambourg, THE WORK OF ATGET: VOLUME III, New York, 1983, p. 96, pl. 60 (variant illustrated) FONDS EUGENE ATGET: HAUTS-DE-SEINE, Sceaux, 1991, pp. 230-231, no. MIDF 89.45.14 (illustrated on p. 231) John Szarkowski, ATGET, New York, 2000, p. 181, pl. 80 (variant illustrated) Atget made the negative for this mysterious photograph of steps leading nowhere in the Parc de St. Cloud in 1904. This print, however, was probably made later, at a time when he returned to St. Cloud to create a new series of negatives. It is printed on gold choride toned printing-out-paper which Atget began to use around 1919. Prior to this date, his prints would have been made on the more common albumen paper. There has been considerable speculation about Atget's photographic motives after the First World War, especially his work in the Parc de St. Cloud, which is thought to be more personal, idiosyncratic and less useful as documents. But this picture does record, not only the steps that once led to the Château de St. Cloud which burned down in the Prussian War in 1870, but the forlorn shoe scraper visible in the lower right foreground.
