The Pont des Arts, Paris

The Pont des Arts, Paris is an 1826 cityscape painting by the British artist Richard Parkes Bonington. 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.

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

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. 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.

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.