Entrance to the Jardin Turc
1812
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 73.3 × 91.4 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-136162
Crisply painted and teeming with detail, Boilly's picture transports us to Napoleonic Paris, where we stand on a shady boulevard outside the Jardin Turc (Turkish Garden Café), a popular establishment that offered its middle-class clientele pleasures formerly reserved for the aristocracy. Young and old, fashionable and not, Parisians gather here for an afternoon's leisure. Two young street performers entertain the crowd: one shows an elegant couple his tame marmot, while the other puts on a puppet show for children hardly younger than himself. A resident of the Marais neighborhood, in which the scene takes place, Boilly included a self-portrait, in spectacles and a top hat, at the painting's rightmost edge.
Provenance
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Registry history
- 1812 — Recorded in the collection of J. Paul Getty Museum
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