“I painted only [in pure colours] at Arcueil and at the Luxembourg Gardens.”

— Albert Marquet

As quoted by J. P. Crespelle, The Fauves, Oldbourne Press, London 1962, p. 66
one of the paintings which Marquet painted in 1898 at the Luxembourg Gardens was titled simply 'Le Luxembourg', see: Francois Fosca, Albert Marquet (Paris: Editions Nouvelle Revue Francois, 1922), pl, 16.

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