diff --git a/pkgs/applications/graphics/gimp/wrapper.nix b/pkgs/applications/graphics/gimp/wrapper.nix
index ec529519159..11c1e9ada93 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/graphics/gimp/wrapper.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/graphics/gimp/wrapper.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{ stdenv, lib, symlinkJoin, gimp, makeWrapper, gimpPlugins, plugins ? null}:
+{ stdenv, lib, symlinkJoin, gimp, makeWrapper, gimpPlugins, gnome3, plugins ? null}:
 
 let
 allPlugins = lib.filter (pkg: builtins.isAttrs pkg && pkg.type == "derivation" && !pkg.meta.broken or false) (lib.attrValues gimpPlugins);
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ in symlinkJoin {
     for each in gimp-${versionBranch} gimp-console-${versionBranch}; do
       wrapProgram $out/bin/$each \
         --set GIMP2_PLUGINDIR "$out/lib/gimp/2.0" \
+        --prefix GTK_PATH : "${gnome3.gnome-themes-extra}/lib/gtk-2.0" \
         ${toString extraArgs}
     done
     set +x