Gardens of Saint-Cloud. Artist: Henri Victor Regnault (French, 1810-1878). Dimensions: Image: 16 1/8 × 14 1/16 in. (41 × 35.7 cm)Sheet: 19 in. × 15 3/16 in. (48.3 × 38.5 cm). Date: before 1855.A famous physicist and early experimenter with the photographic process invented by Talbot, Victor Regnault was a prime mover in early French photography. With Delacroix, among others, he founded the Société Héliographique in 1851, was founding president of the subsequent Société Française de Photographie in 1854, and as director of the Sèvres porcelain factory from 1852 to 1871 made photography a central focus of technical and artistic experiment there.This large photograph represents the gardens laid out by the seventeenth-century landscape designer André Le Nôtre for the duc d'Orléans, the brother of Louis XIV, at Saint-Cloud. At the time the picture was made Saint-Cloud was an important locus of the glittering imperial court of Napoleon III. Yet Regnault probably did not choose to photog
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