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Series Title: Landscapes and Interiors

On the Pont de l'Europe

1899

Édouard Vuillard

(French, 1868–1940)
printer

Auguste Clot

(French, 1858–1936)
publisher

Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1867–1939)
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Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
color lithograph
Measurements
Sheet: 33.4 x 49.5 cm (13 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.10
Catalogue raisonné
Roger-Marx 40
State
II/II
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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A popular scene among French Impressionists, Le Pont de l’Europe is also depicted in paintings by Gustave Caillebotte, Édouard Manet, and Claude Monet.

Description

The Pont de l’Europe, a massive iron bridge built between 1865 and 1869, provided easy access to the expanded Gare Saint-Lazare railway station. Vuillard depicts this quintessential symbol of Parisian modernity with a decorative design of crisscrossing railings. The pattern is reminiscent of the wallpaper and textiles in the artist’s paintings of interiors throughout the 1890s, such as those on view in the first two galleries of this exhibition. In his own witty and highly personal manner, Vuillard domesticized one of the capital’s most important landmarks and technologically modern feats.
A horizontally oriented color lithograph with grainy, mottled textures depicts two figures before a dark, riveted metal structure. To our left, a girl with light skin stands with her back turned, wearing a purple shawl and floral yellow skirt. To our right, a woman in profile faces our right, wearing a pink and blue checkered dress. She carries a large bundle and a dark umbrella against the muted, textured background.

On the Pont de l'Europe

1899

Édouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1868–1940), (French, 1858–1936), (French, 1867–1939)
France, 19th century

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