'Jardin des Amoureux' from the ballet '1830', Alhambra Theatre, 1911, by Adrian Allinson. Oil on canvas.

Public pleasure gardens with raised balustrade to back surrounded by lights and lanterns in the trees; in foreground, couples dressed in approximation of the fashions of 1830. In a spotlight in the foreground, left of centre, stand a couple, she with dress held out in the left hand, right hand on hip, and to left of them on the ground a girl in a wide brimmed bonnet with man leaning over her. To right of centre, a Master of Ceremonies greets two girls. Signed lower right hand corner: ALLINSON.

Cyril W. Beaumont Bequest

The painting depicts scene 3, Jardin des Amoureux in the ballet 1830, choreographed by Emile Agoust and Elise Clerc to a scenario by Maurice Volney, which opened at the Alhambra Theatre on 23 October 1911. The moment shown is possible the last dance of the evening, with Misses Purzini and Annie Clarke with Messrs R. Vallis and Victor Andre in the Quadrille Eccentrique.
This was the first painting purchased by Cyril Beaumont, who admired Allinson's sense of colour. Beaumont describes the scene as 'Vauxhall Gardens', which may be an assumption, but the subject is certainly an evocation of the London pleasure gardens of the early 19th century.
The painting came to the Museum as part of the Cyril Beaumont Bequest.

'1830' by Maurice Volny, Scene 3 'Jardin des Amoureux'

S.71-1988