SARGENT, John Singer
(b. 1856, Firenze, d. 1925, London)

In the Luxembourg Gardens

1879
Oil on canvas, 66 x 92 cm
Museum of Art, Philadelphia

This painting depicts a twilight scene in the Luxembourg Garden with a fashionably dressed couple walking arm in arm. In the 1870s Sargent lived in the Quartier Latin in Paris, near to the Palais du Luxembourg and its large park.




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