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Maker(s):Gauguin, Paul
Culture:French (1848 - 1903)
Title:The Market Gardens of Vaugirard
Date Made:1879
Type:Painting
Materials:oil on canvas
Place Made:France; Vaugirard
Measurements:stretcher: 26 x 39 1/2 in.; 66.04 x 100.33 cm
Narrative Inscription:  signed and dated in blue paint at lower left: P. Gauguin 79
Accession Number:  SC 1953.55
Credit Line:Purchased
Museum Collection:  Smith College Museum of Art
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Description:
landscape; agriculture; outdoor; vegetation; vegetable

Label Text:
Unlike the more familiar paintings of Tahiti from his later career, this canvas represents an important moment in Paul Gauguin’s early work, when he was a successful stockbroker and had begun studying painting with his mentor, Camille Pissarro (whose Old Chelsea Bridge, London is on view nearby). The scene represents a view from the upper story of Gauguin’s own house (whose roof and chimney are visible at lower left), overlooking the gardens and residences of Vaugirard, his neighborhood on the left bank of the Seine in Paris. Market Gardens was shown in the Fifth Impressionist Exhibition of 1880 and marked Gauguin’s debut as an Impressionist painter.

With its broad panes of color and hatched brushstrokes, this cityscape shows the influence of Pissarro as well as Paul Cézanne, whose work Gauguin collected. The aerial perspective—a bird’s eye view overlooking the buildings of Paris—was often used by Pissarro and other Impressionists.

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