The Pond in the Tuileries, 1898
Auguste Louis Lepèreexpand_more
Color woodcutexpand_more
Bequest of Harry Drakeexpand_more 2013.35.612
Not on Viewexpand_more
The Tuileries is a magnificent garden in the center of Paris. The name reveals the area’s past. Tuile is the French word for tile. From the 1200s to the 1500s, the area was full of tile-making kilns, or tuileries. In the 1560s, Queen Catherine de Medici, wife of King Henry II, bought the land to make room for a new palace and a large garden. A century later, at the request of Charles Perrault, author of Sleeping Beauty and other fairy tales, the Tuileries became the first royal garden the public could visit. Revolutionaries torched the palace in 1871, but the garden remains a place to stroll and sail model boats.
Details
- Title
- The Pond in the Tuileries
- Artist Life
- Paris 1849–Domme, Dordogne 1918
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2013.35.612
- Provenance
- L'Estampe Nouvelle, Lugt 886 (founded 1897), Paris. [Judith L. Pillsbury, Paris, until 1994; sold in March for TTOO, to Drake]; Harry Drake, St. Paul (1994-d. 2012; bequeathed to MIA)
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Lotz-Brissonneau 265 ii/ii
- Curator Approved
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