This small, charming drawing in conté crayon was made on an early trip to Paris, around 1907. Peploe drew every day, carrying a sketch book in his pocket. Here in the Luxembourg Gardens, he would have been thinking about a painting, considering the proportions of his panel and masses of the composition. The view is across one of the great ponds in the Gardens looking to the distinctive profile of The Pantheon sitting on the Montagne Sainte-Genevieve.
About S.J. Peploe
Born in 1871 in Edinburgh, S.J. Peploe is the senior of the four artists known as The Scottish Colourists. He lived in Paris from 1910 until 1912, where his work changed radically from paintings reminiscent of Manet and Sargent to brilliant Fauvist works which placed him in the vanguard of British Modernism.
