The Louvre from the Pont Neuf

1902

For several years, Pissarro rented an apartment on the Île de la Cité in the heart of Paris. He painted a series of cityscapes from his window, recording boats on the river, people at work or leisure on the terrace below, and the imposing presence of the Musée du Louvre on the opposite bank. The artist strove to render what he described as Paris’s “silvery atmosphere,” exploring the effects of light in varied weather and in different seasons.

Medium	oil on canvas
Dimensions	23 15/16 x 36 7/16 in. (60.8 x 92.5 cm) Frame: 32 11/16 x 45 5/16 in. (83 x 115.1 cm)
Object Number	1955.558
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Camille Pissarro, The Louvre from the Pont Neuf, 1902, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.558

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Amsterdam: Van Wisselingh Galleries. Exposition de Peinture Française, Ecole du Dix Neuvième Siècle. April 10-May 2, 1929.. Amsterdam: Van Wisselingh Galleries. Hollandische en Fransche Schilderkunst der XIXe en XXe Eeuw. April 27-May 28, 1932.. Brussels: Palais de Beaux Arts.. L'Impressionisme.. 1935.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Five: French Paintings of the 19th Century. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1956. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Dallas Museum of Art.. The Impressionist and the City: Pissarro's Series Paintings. Nov. 15, 1992-Jan. 31, 1993; Philadelphia Museum of Art, March 7-June 6, 1993; Royal Academy of Arts, London, July 2-Oct. 10, 1993. Cat. by Richard R. Bretell and Joachim Pissarro. . . International Studio.. August 1930..

E. J. van Wisselingh & Co. Advertisement. Art News 30 (5 March 1932): 8.

. . Les Beaux-Arts, Brussels, special number on Impressionism.. June 1935.. Pierre Courthion, tr. Stuart Gilbert.. "A Ramble through Paris." in Paris in Our Time.. [Lausanne?]: Skira.. c. 1957.. . "Paris en Parle". French News. Jan. 1962.. Roy Willis.. Western Civilization, An Urban Perspective. George Heard Hamilton.. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art.. New York: Abrams.. 1970.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. George Heard Hamilton.. "The Dying of the Light: The Late Work of Degas, Monet, and Cézanne." in John Reward and Frances Weitzenhoffer, ed., Aspects of Monet: A Symposium of the Artist's Life and Times.. New York: Harry N. Abrams.. 1984.:pp. 220-41.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Pissarro, Ludovico Rodo, and Lionello Venturi. Camille Pissarro, Son Art, Son Oeuvre. 2 volumes. Paris: P. Rosenberg, 1939. Pissarro, Joachim and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts. Pissarro: Critical Catalogue pf Paintings. Vol. I-III. Paris: Wildenstein Institute Publications. 2005. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.

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Provenance

Pieter Van der Velde, Le Havre (until c. 1917);¹ [Paul Rosenberg, Paris, by 1917];² Marquis C. de Rochecouste, Paris, sold to Wisselingh, 1929; [E. J. van Wisselingh & Co., Amsterdam, 1929–37, sold to A. Raiss];³ A. Raiss, from 1937; Mrs. Grossi, Cairo; Virginia R. Popper, New York, sold to Knoedler, 25 Feb. 1950; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 31 March 1950]; Robert Sterling Clark (1950–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955. 1. Rodolphe Walter states that Van der Velde sold some paintings from his collection “after the war of 1914–18,” and that at his death in February 1922, he owned 14 Pissarro paintings, but he does not specifically mention this work; see Rodolphe Walter, "Pieter van de Velde: un amateur éclairé," Gazette des Beaux Arts, vol. 72 (Oct. 1968), p. 204. 2. According to information in the Paul Rosenberg Archives, this painting had been acquired by 1917, based on a list of works photographed (The Paul Rosenberg Archives, a gift of Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg. The Museum of Modern Art Archives, New York). 3. According to Joachim Pissarro and Claire Durand-Ruel Snollaerts, Pissarro: Critical Catalogue of Paintings, 2005, vol. 3, p. 868.