"View Of The Pont Des Arts And The Institute, French School, Early 19th Century."
View of the Pont des Arts and the Institute, dimensions 60 cm x 101 cm, with its gilded carved wooden frame, 74 cm x 125 cm, French school, early 19th century. Important view of Paris from the Quai Malaquais, with the Institute, the Pont des Arts, the Pont Neuf and the tip of the Île de la Cité. The Pont des Arts, also known as the Passerelle des Arts, was built in 1801 and was the capital's first iron bridge. According to the position of the sun, the scene is in the late afternoon in late spring.