The Garden Girl

The Garden Girl was painted in Brittany, France. Amélie Lundahl had studied in Paris, but like many of her fellow-artists also spent many summers on the French coast, painting local landscapes and people. Those years in France between 1877 and 1885, and especially her time in Brittany, were a fruitful period in her artistic development. The Garden Girl is an example of the realistic plein air painting which was a popular trend at the time. To capture the real feeling of the moment Lundahl painted the work outside in the natural setting, rather than in the studio.