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The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon

1899
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 820
In December 1898 Pissarro wrote from Paris that he had "engaged an apartment at 204 rue de Rivoli, opposite the Tuileries, with a superb view of the garden, the Louvre to the left, in the background the houses on the quays behind the trees, to the right the Dôme des Invalides, and the steeples of Sainte-Clotilde behind clumps of chestnut trees. It’s very beautiful. I shall have a fine series to paint." During the following winter and spring he painted eight cityscapes looking toward the Louvre, and six, like this one, of the Tuileries Gardens with Sainte-Clotilde in the background.

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  • Title: The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon
  • Artist: Camille Pissarro (French, Charlotte Amalie, Saint Thomas 1830–1903 Paris)
  • Date: 1899
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 29 x 36 1/4 in. (73.7 x 92.1 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Katrin S. Vietor, in loving memory of Ernest G. Vietor, 1966
  • Object Number: 66.36
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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NARRATOR: In late 1898, Pissarro undertook a suite of fourteen views of the Tuileries Gardens in the center of Paris.Here we see throngs of Parisians milling about along the broad pathways of the immense formal garden. Notice how the artist recreated the late afternoon sunlight as it breaks through the cloud-filled sky, filters through the limbs of the towering chestnut trees, and finds its way to the sandy pathways and broad expanses of green winter grass.
Pissarro's paintings of the Tuileries Garden are notable for their continuing commitment to optical objectivity. His approach is quite different from that of his colleague, Monet. While Monet regularly engaged in formal manipulations and tonal exaggerations, Pissarro concentrated on capturing the actual lighting and atmospheric effects that he encountered in the gardens.

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