Ludovic Rodo Pissarro in the garden of his father in Eragny

Ludovic Rodo Pissarro in the garden of his father in Eragny (1895) depicts Ludovic Rodo Pissarro — the son of Camille Pissarro — in the garden of the family home at Éragny-sur-Epte in Normandy. This work is a direct document of the overlapping social and familial networks of Post-Impressionism: Luce was closely connected to the Pissarro family through their shared anarchist politics and Neo-Impressionist affiliations. Camille Pissarro had himself embraced the divisionist method in 1886 under Seurat's influence, though he would later abandon it. His son Ludovic Rodo became a painter and writer on Impressionism. The Éragny garden was Camille Pissarro's primary outdoor studio space throughout the late 1880s and 1890s — he produced many paintings there — and Luce's visit to paint Ludovic in this setting constitutes a form of homage to the older artist's landscape. The subject, a young figure in an informal garden setting, belongs to the plein-air figure painting tradition Luce shared with the broader Post-Impressionist circle.

The garden setting is treated with Luce's characteristic Neo-Impressionist approach: foliage built from varied color strokes, the figure set against a luminous background of broken greens and yellows. Natural light on the young figure's clothing and face is rendered through warm-cool color contrasts.