Chateau Montesquieu (c. 1900): Art, History and Details

Chateau Montesquieu (c. 1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853–1943).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

Frederick H. Evans is recognized as the foremost architectural photographer of his day. A vocal defender of "straight" or unmanipulated photography, Evans was obsessed with technical and aesthetic perfection and never touched up his negatives or prints. His use of the platinum print process enabled him to render fine, accurate detail and an exquisite range of tones. Chateau Montesquieu depicts one of many great buildings the artist documented in France.

Object facts

• Title: Chateau Montesquieu
• Date: c. 1900
• Creator attribution: Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853–1943)
• Culture: England, early 20th Century
• Type: Photograph
• Technique: platinum print
• Dimensions: Image: 15.4 x 8.7 cm (6 1/16 x 3 7/16 in.); Matted: 35.6 x 30.6 cm (14 x 12 1/16 in.)
• Collection: PH - British 20th Century
• Department: Photography
• Accession number: 1987.26

Collection credit

Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.