The French landscape garden (French: jardin anglais, jardin à l'anglaise, jardin paysager, jardin pittoresque, jardin anglo-chinois)[1] is a style of garden inspired by idealized romantic landscapes and the paintings of Hubert Robert, Claude Lorrain and Nicolas Poussin, European ideas about Chinese gardens, and the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The style originated in England as the English landscape garden in the early 18th century, and spread to France where, in the second half of the 18th century and early 19th century, it gradually replaced the rigidly clipped and geometrical French formal garden (jardin à la française).[2][3]
- ^ Campbell, Gordon (2019-02-15). Garden History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. p. 70. ISBN 978-0-19-100417-9.
- ^ Baltrušaitis 1978.
- ^ Wenzler 2003, p. 27.