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A number of grandly costumed figures are seen beside a fountain in an imaginary garden on the edge of a forest. Two men on horseback coming from the left are approaching a group of women standing in the centre but moved slightly to background. On the right, three other women and a dog are seen in front of the fountain, moving in the same direction of the horsemen.

This small panel is most probably the companion to Monticelli’s Fountain in a Park, also in the National Gallery,and both have been dated on the basis of style to about 1875–1880. In both paintings the artist evokes the eighteenth-century tradition of fêtes galantes initiated by Watteau, in which elegant figures enjoy themselves in parks and gardens.

Monticelli’s distinctive painting style, characterised by evident rapidity of execution, thick paint and blurred forms, was admired in the late nineteenth century by several artists such as Cézanne and Van Gogh.