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Lépine painted over a dozen views of the gardens which surrounded the Tuileries Palace in Paris. The Parisian residence of most French monarchs from Henry IV to Napoleon III, the Palace had been burned down during the Commune of 1871, the short-lived revolutionary government that ruled Paris in the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War and Siege of Paris.
As the ruins of the Palace were demolished between December 1882 and September 1883, Lépine would have painted the picture between 1871 and 1883. He has limited his colours to tones of blue, yellow, green and grey, whose subtle harmonies enhance the sense of everyday life restored after the upheavals of the war and the Commune.
Title
Nuns and Schoolgirls in the Tuileries Gardens, Paris
Date
1871-83
Medium
Oil on wood
Measurements
H 15.7 x W 23.7 cm
Accession number
NG6346
Acquisition method
Presented by Mrs H.W. Rawlinson, 1963
Work type
Painting
The National Gallery, London
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