Dans le Jardin

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 1/8 in. (31.4 x 41 cm.)

DescriptionThis 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.

SignedSigned in lower center of recto: JB. Hilair

InscribedSigned in lower center of recto: JB. Hilair

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 number78.20.9B