Garden in Provence (Le Jardin Provençal)

Armand Guillaumin

c. 1920

Oil on canvas

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A lush garden scene depicts rolling hills covered in dense foliage, with flowering trees and a winding path leading towards buildings in the distance. A lush garden scene depicts rolling hills covered in dense foliage, with flowering trees and a winding path leading towards buildings in the distance. Guillaumin found success as a professional artist in Paris, exhibiting at the Salon des Refusés in 1873 and regularly with the Impressionists between 1874 and 1886. Committed to painting directly from nature, he captured landscapes and gardens just outside Paris and in the south of France. Although Guillaumin is lesser known than his friends Camille Pissarro and Paul Cezanne, his bold brushwork and expressive use of color had a profound influence on the next generation of artists. His