Garden of the Princess, Louvre

Le Jardin de l'Infante

Garden of the Princess, Louvre

Claude Monet · 1867

Allen Memorial Art Museum

Oberlin, United States

About this painting

Painted from a Louvre window in spring 1867 with Renoir alongside him, Monet's oblique, elevated view of Paris — likely inspired by Japanese prints he'd seen at the World's Fair — captures the garden named for a Spanish princess once briefly engaged to Louis XV.