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Dans le Jardin

Type: Paintings(Opens in new tab)
Date: ca. 1795
Accession number: 78.20.9B
Maker: Jean-Baptiste Hilair(Opens in new tab) (French, 1753–1822)
Dimensions: 12 3/8 x 16 1/8 in. (31.4 x 41 cm.)
Medium: oil on panel
Description: This painting shows a landscape with ladies and gentlemen in the forground; one of the ladies, in the immediate center, is playing a musical instrument, while a young girl is watching her dog stand on its hind legs. At the right, a gentelman seated on a stone slab near a chateau, in which a mother and her child are about to enter.
Credit: The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection, gift of Mildred Browning Green and Honorable Lucius Peyton Green
Department: European Art
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This is one of two small landscapes (#78.20.9A and 78.20.9B) showing views of a celebrated Parisian garden. The Parc Monceau is famous for its garden follies and architectural pavilions, including a classical rotunda by the renowned architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, seen in the painting at left. Hilair specialized in views of people enjoying the parks and public gardens of Paris, blending landscapes and paintings of everyday life to create charming vignettes of contemporary Parisian leisure.

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