Personnes et institutions:

Geoffrey James (photographer)
Louis Le Vau (architect)
Jules Hardouin Mansart (architect)
Jules Hardouin Mansart (landscape architect)
André Le Nôtre (garden designer)
Jules Hardouin Mansart (garden designer)
Louis Le Vau (garden designer)
Maximilien-Joseph Hurtault (architect)
Napoleon I, Emperor of the French (patron)
Louis Philippe, King of the French (patron)
André Le Nôtre (landscape architect)
Louis XIV, King of France (patron)
Claude Perrault (architect)

Titre:

Portfolio of photographs of gardens, Seine-et-Marne, Hauts-de-Seine and Yvelines, France

Date:

1981

Classification:
photographies

Quantité / Type d’objet:
1 portfolio(s)

Technique et médium:

Gelatin silver prints

Dimensions:

portfolio (closed): 33,3 x 57,1 x 3,4 cm comps. (range [some irreg.]): 8,4 to 9,1 x 26,4 to 26,6 cm sheets (range [most irreg.]): 11,1 to 12,7 x 29,4 to 31 cm

Numéro de référence:

PH1982:0808:001-010

Point de vue:

partial view
exterior views

Inscriptions:

imprinted - on the cover and title page, in typescript, in grey ink, c.: with title and the photographer's name imprinted - on the table of contents, in typescript, in grey ink, c.l.: "I Fontainebleau, Le Jardin de Diane, 1981 / II Fontainebleau, The Canal, 1981 / III St. Cloud, 1981 / IV St. Cloud, 1981 / V St. Cloud, 1981"; and c.r.: "VI Sceau [sic], 1981 / VII Fontainebleau, 1981/ VIII Sceau [sic], 1981 / IX Marly-le-Roi, 1981 / X Marly-le-Roi, 1981"; and l.l. to l.r.: "This portfolio has been produced in an edition of 20, with a further five examples hors commerce. Published 1981 in / collaboration with Yajima Galerie, Montreal [sic]." numbered and signed - on the table of contents, by the photographer, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "[This is portfolio] No.: 9/20 / Geoffrey James" imprinted - on the third page, in typescript, in grey ink, c.l. to c.r.: "At last they went down to the flower-garden. This was a / huge rectangle, where in a single glance the eye could take in / the broad yellow paths, the squares of turf, the ribbons of / box, the conical yews, the low shrubs, and the narrow beds / in which scattered flowers stood out brightly against the / grey earth. Beyond the garden there was a park, with a long canal / stretching the whole length of it. / Royal residences have a melancholy all their own, which is / probably due to the disproportion between their immensity / and the tiny number of inhabitants, to their silence, which / seems surprising after so many fanfares have been sounded / there, and to their unchanging luxury, which proves by its / antiquity the transience of dynasties, the inevitable imper- / manence of all things; and this emanation of the past, as / overpowering and funereal as the scent of mummy, affects / even the simplest mind. / Gustave Flaubert, Sentimental Education

Localisation:

France

Sujet:

architecture
architecture de paysage
ingénierie
sculpture

Termes descriptifs:

gardens
trees
gateways
figures (representations)
walkways
benches
statues
pavilions (building divisions)
artificial lakes
evergreens
canals
shrubs
cascades
roads
groves (plant communities)
urns
topiary
meadows
allée
beds (site elements)
parks (recreation areas)
orangeries
lawns
avenues
garden walks
hedges
French gardens
garden apartments
guesthouses
grottoes
water chains
water stairs (landscaped-site elements)
elm trees
rotundas (buildings)
terrace gardens
terrace walls

Mention de crédit:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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