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

On View

On View - Stent Family Wing, Level 3, Gallery 304

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.

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