RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
(b, 1841, Limoges, d. 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer)

The Pont des Arts, Paris

1867
Oil on canvas, 62 x 102 cm
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena

In spring 1867 Renoir painted Paris city scenes with Monet. His view of the recently built Pont des Arts, which spans the Seine between the Louvre and the Academy of Fine Arts, is a broad, panoramically structures scene that includes the bustle at a steamer landing stage and a lively interplay of light, shadow and clouds of various colours.