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On the Pont de l'Europe
1899
(French, 1868–1940)
printer
(French, 1858–1936)
publisher
(French, 1867–1939)
Sheet: 33.4 x 49.5 cm (13 1/8 x 19 1/2 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.10
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 40
Location: Not on view
Did You Know?
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.- ?-1951(William H. Schab Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)1951-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “The Nabi City.” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 222-261. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned: P. 233; Reproduced: P. 259, no. 177
- Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022).
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