Tuileries Gardens
Childe Hassam
American, 1859–1935
Details
Title
Tuileries Gardens
Artist/Maker
Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935)
Date
ca. 1897
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
24 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches
Credit
Gift of Miss Mary E. Haverty for the J. J. Haverty Collection
Accession #
61.66
A product of his third trip to Europe, Tuileries Gardens is a spirited example of Childe Hassam’s interest in extending his command of the brighter Impressionist palette. This charming scene is a visual essay in chromatic harmonies—the light tones of ground, sky, and buildings are judiciously punctuated by clusters of parkgoers painted in deep, bold hues. Like the French Impressionists he admired, Hassam selected the quotidian subject of a Parisian public park and likely painted this scene en plein air, or directly on-site.