ID: 700007706 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700007706	Record Type: Movable Work
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Entrance to the Jardin Turc (painting (visual work); Louis-Léopold Boilly (French, 1761 - 1845) (French Artist...; 1812; J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los A...; 2010.11;)

Note: Crisply painted in glowing colors and teeming with anecdotal detail, Boilly's picture transports us to the heart of Napoleonic Paris, where we stand outside the entrance to the city's most celebrated café, the Jardin Turc. Located in the Marais at 28, boulevard du Temple, the establishment offered its middle-class clientele pleasures once reserved for the aristocracy. Founded in 1780, the Jardin Turc comprised an elegant garden, restaurant, and café housed in a series of tented pavilions whose crescent finials (visible at left) and orientalizing decor reflected an eighteenth-century taste for turquerie. Boilly captured the place at its apogee, one year after new management had converted the former ice cream parlor into a lavish dining room overseen by chefs who had worked in aristocratic households before the Revolution. A wild commercial success, the Jardin Turc spawned numerous imitations and represented for many Parisians the democratization of luxury, rendering public formerly private pleasures.But in Boilly's scene, we have not penetrated the exotic realm of the garden cafe, whose feathery treetops suggest a deep and tempting prospect at right. We have not paid our entrance fee at the shaded kiosk window or passed through the crowded gate, over which an ornamental gilt "Turk" presides, cross-legged, at left. The artist has chosen instead to place us on the south side of the boulevard, directing our attention not so much to the scenery as to the spectacle of the crowded street. Young and old, fashionable and not, these Parisians take evident pleasure in the novel social promiscuity permitted by the tree-lined boulevard, an eighteenth-century innovation that would come, over the course of the nineteenth century, to define the Parisian cityscape. The development of the boulevard du Temple as a new kind of public entertainment corridor, featuring theaters, restaurants, and cafés, attracted large crowds and made it an early site for the modern urban pastime we today call "people watching." The boulevard du Temple was among the first truly public places in Paris where one went to see and be seen, and Boilly's picture takes as its theme this atmosphere of self-display and spectatorship.

Titles:

Entrance to the Jardin Turc (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

The Entrance to the Turkish Garden Cafe (C,U,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

painting (visual work) [300033618] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

paintings (preferred)

Creation Date: 1812

Creator Display:

Louis-Léopold Boilly (French, 1761 - 1845) (French Artist) [preferred,JPGM]

Boilly, Louis Leopold (French painter, 1761-1845) [500023946]

Locations:

Current: J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles, Los Angeles county, California, United States) [500329598] J. Paul Getty Museum, J. Paul Getty Trust, Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: 2010.11

Other: Creation: France [1000070] Europe (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Display Materials: Oil on canvas

	oil paint (paint) [300015050]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>)

	canvas (textile material) [300014078]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by process or technique>)

Dimensions: Unframed: 73.3 x 91.1 cm (28 7/8 x 35 7/8 in.); Framed [outer dim]: 90.5 x 109.2 x 10.8 cm (35 5/8 x 43 x 4 1/4 in.)

Cultures:

French (preferred)

Style/Period/Group/Movement:

	Romantic (modern European styles) [300172863] (preferred,style)
	.....(Styles and Periods Facet, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name), <styles| periods| and cultures by region>, European, <modern European styles and movements>)

General Subject:

genre (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	street [300008247]
	.....(Objects Facet, Built Environment (hierarchy name), Open Spaces and Site Elements (hierarchy name ), open spaces, <open spaces by function>, transportation spaces, roads, <roads by form>) (AAT)

	dogs (species) [300250130]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Carnivora (order), Canidae (family), Canis (genus)) (AAT)

	Boilly, Louis Léopold (French painter, 1761-1845) [500023946]
	.....(Persons, Artists) (ULAN)

	reality [300379727]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), social science concepts, psychological concepts) (AAT)

	cityscape (representation) [300015571]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>) (AAT)

	entertainment [300137564]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, social functions) (AAT)

	groundhog (species) [300250611]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Animalia (kingdom), Chordata (phylum), Vertebrata (subphylum), Mammalia (class), Rodentia (order), Sciuridae (family), Marmota (genus)) (AAT)

	self-portrait [300124534]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by subject type>, portraits) (AAT)

	social classes [300138992]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), groups of people, social groups) (AAT)

	music (performing arts genre) [300054146]
	.....(Associated Concepts Facet, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name), <concepts in the arts and humanities>, <genres in literature and performing arts>, <genres for performing arts>) (AAT)

	musicians [300025666]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>) (AAT)

	performers (performing artists) [300068931]
	.....(Agents Facet, People (hierarchy name), people (agents), <people by occupation>, <people in the humanities>, <people in the arts and related occupations>, <people in the arts>, <people in the performing arts>) (AAT)

	socializing [300379719]
	.....(Activities Facet, Functions (hierarchy name), functions (activities), <functions by specific context>, social functions) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Entrance to the Jardin Turc	........ [JPGM,VP]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)
The Entrance to the Turkish Garden Cafe	........ [JPGM]
	........ J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)

Subject: ....... [JPGM,VP]

Note:
English	..... [JPGM]
	..... J. Paul Getty Museum database for collections (2000-)