Louis Janmot line, Field flower - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon

In this painting, Janmot depicts a young girl holding a bouquet of wildflowers, her eyes imbued with an almost celestial calm. The scene is bathed in soft, golden light, highlighting the purity of the figure and the freshness of the flowers. The background, often sober in Janmot's work, leaves plenty of room for the expression of the human figure and the emotion it exudes.

But beyond simple floral or bucolic representation, Fleur des champs is part of a symbolic vision: the young girl embodies nature in its most innocent and ephemeral form. The bouquet she holds evokes the fragile beauty of life, which the painter seems intent on eternalizing on canvas. The adolescent girl's gentle, melancholy gaze seems to ask us about the passage of time, the loss of innocence, and nostalgia for a lost paradise.

The precision with which the painter has depicted her face could suggest a portrait. Her crown of white bindweed and wildflowers illuminates her dark hair, like an echo of nature's fragile beauty. The identity of her model remains unknown, however, and her features seem both realistic and idealized.