Albert Edelfelt

• Albert Edelfelt : Pariisin Luxemburgin puistossa, 1887, 144x188, oil, canvas (A II 835, Antell) (52.2 kB)

From The Luxembourg Gardens (1887) is the most important of Edelfelt's Parisian plein air paintings. In this park scene Edelfelt wanted to paint everything that to him seemed typically Parisian. A more than ten-year stay in the city had made him look at his environment like a native. The Jardin de Luxembourg with its children at play inspired him to embark upon a large painting filled with spring sunshine, leafy trees, thousands of babies with their Norman nursemaids, soldiers, young Parisiennes and Quartier Latin's scholars . After two months of painting the work, according to Edelfelt, so far resembled vegetable soup. The same pale green colours with peas and carrots here and there. The final version of this sunny and carefree scene was completed largely outdoors in Haikko, Edelfelt's Finnish home.

Pariisin Luxemburgin puistossa