Parisian Backyard

Parisian Backyard is an oil-on-canvas painting executed in 1884 by Finnish artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela.

The work is 28 × 23 cm in size and belongs to the Ateneum, part of the Finnish National Gallery in Helsinki, where it was donated in 1945.

The Parisian Backyard is a work of Gallen-Kallela's first trip to Paris, in the autumn of 1884.

In the foreground of the late autumn landscape stands a dark, leafless tree.

Behind it stand the dirty-gray brick neighboring buildings and a mere patch of white sky visible at the top left of the painting.