Louis Van Engelen - The Gardener

Oil on panel
1880
19 by 27 cm

This oil on panel dates from 1880, a period in which the development of photography radically changed the arts. The Gardener balances between realism and impressionism. The painting suggests a frozen moment in time and thus resembles a photograhic still. it is nonetheless the atmospheric quality of the oil paint that gives this small work of art its universal charm.