Dans le Parc

Maker Jean-Baptiste Hilair (French, 1753 - after 1822)

Additional Title(s)

View in the Parc Monceau
Dans le Parc and Dans le Jardin
Two Scenes in Parc Monceau

ClassificationsPAINTINGS

Dateca. 1795

Mediumoil on panel

Dimensions12 3/8 x 16 1/4 in. (31.4 x 41.3 cm.)

DescriptionThis painting depicts a flower vendor showing her wares to threee ladies, and nearby a little boy, with his dog holding a bird in his right hand. At the left, a fisherman and two women, one of whom is kneeling and washing her wares near a statue on a large pedestal bearing, at the top, the signature of the painter. On the other side of the pond is a Greek circular temple, and at the right can be seen the upper part of a palace.

SignedSigned and dated in lower left of recto: JB Hilair [date illegible]

InscribedSigned and dated in lower left of recto: JB Hilair [date illegible]

Credit LineThe Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. Adele S. Browning Memorial Collection, gift of Mildred Browning Green and Honorable Lucius Peyton Green

Status

On view

Label TextThis 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.

Object number78.20.9A