The Pont des Arts, Paris

The Pont des Arts, Paris
Artist	Richard Parkes Bonington
Year	c.1826
Type	Oil on board, cityscape
Dimensions	35.6 cm × 45.1 cm (14.0 in × 17.8 in)
Location	Tate Britain, London

The Pont des Arts, Paris is an 1826 cityscape painting by the British artist Richard Parkes Bonington.[1] [2] [3] It depicts a scene in Paris during the Restoration era. The Pont des Arts across the River Seine, built during the Napoleonic era, forms the centre of the veduta.

Parkes Bonington was a British artist who lived in France for many years. He produced a number of landscape paintings, primarily of France and Italy before his death from tuberculosis, aged 25. He turned to painting scenes of Paris comparatively late in his career.[4] This work, an oil sketch, was painted a couple of years before his death. It is now in the collection of the Tate Britain in London, having been acquired in 1961.[5]

References

1. Bauer p.154
2. Wright, Gordon & Smith p.106
3. Bury p.145
4. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bonington-the-pont-des-arts-paris-n06326
5. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/bonington-the-pont-des-arts-paris-n06326

Bibliography

• Bauer, Gérald. The Eloquence of Colour: The Genius of Bonington's Contemporaries. Clem Arts, 2003.
• Bury, Stephen (ed.) Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators, Volume 1. OUP, 2012.
• Cormack, Malcolm. Bonnington. Phaidon Press, 1989.
• Wright, Christopher, Gordon, Catherine May & Smith, Mary Peskett. British and Irish Paintings in Public Collections: An Index of British and Irish Oil Paintings by Artists Born Before 1870 in Public and Institutional Collections in the United Kingdom and Ireland.