Painted circa 1898, this is an early example of both the formal order and exotic forms that attracted Rusiñol to exploring the subject of the garden in his painting. The work featured in Rusiñol's seminal and highly acclaimed exhibition Jardins d'Espagne in the Salon du Champ-de-Mars in Paris in 1899.... Like the majority of the works in the Paris exhibition, the present painting celebrates Rusiñol's love of Granada and the light and color of its gardens. He first discovered the painterly possibilities of Granada during his visit there in September 1887, and returned the year he painted the present work with Miquel Utrillo, Arcadi Mas y Fondevila and Macari Oller.... Rusiñol's burgeoning success enabled him to return again and again to the subject of gardens, and... (http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2009/19th-century-european-paintings-including-german-austrian-central-european-paintings-the-orientalist-sale-spanish-painting-and-the-scandinavian-sale-l09661/lot.82.html)