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Le Pont Neuf

1901

Auguste Louis Lepère

(French, 1849–1918)
Culture
France, early 20th Century
Medium
etching
Support
Measurements
Image: 17.1 x 31 cm (6 3/4 x 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 22.5 x 33.9 cm (8 7/8 x 13 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of Robert Lundie Shearer 1987.190
Catalogue raisonné
Lotz-Brissonneau 124
State
II/II
Public Domain
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Location
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Like Charles Meryon, Auguste Lepère was known for etchings of Paris. This work shows how bateaux-lavoirs (wash boats) changed over the course of a half century, as dissatisfaction grew about their unsanitariness and unattractiveness. In contrast to Meryon’s hectic scenes—in which laundresses lean out of open windows and stretch lines of laundry along the river’s paved banks—the boats appear here as orderly and uniform structures, closed so that the women working within were not visible to passersby.
A horizontally oriented etching in black ink depicts a river scene. In the foreground, figures with medium-light skin tones labor on a stone quay. A large barge with a mast and smokestack floats in the middle ground. Behind it, a stone bridge with two arches spans the river below a row of tall buildings. A statue stands on the far left. Fine hatching creates deep shadows across the bridge and the rippling river.

Le Pont Neuf

1901

Auguste Louis Lepère

(French, 1849–1918)
France, early 20th Century

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