Young pushchair pushers in the allée Férou in the Jardin du Luxembourg, 1907
Photograph by the brothers Jules, Louis and Henri Séeberger 
Musée Carnavalet, History of Paris, Paris

The Luxembourg Gardens, in the capital's 6th arrondissement, were a favourite subject for painters at the turn of the 20th century, as they embodied a time and place of leisure far removed from the relentless, exhilarating pace of modern Parisian life.

Vincent VAN GOGH
Allée au Jardin du Luxembourg, 1886
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, USA

Henri ROUSSEAU (known as LE DOUANIER ROUSSEAU)
Le Jardin du Luxembourg, Monument à Chopin, 1909
Oil on canvas
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia