Pont-Neuf, Paris
Charles Meryon
1853 · Etching and drypoint; seventh state of eleven · Drawings and Prints
It seems likely that the poet Charles Baudelaire had this print in mind in 1859 when he admired "the majesty of accumulated stone" in Meryon’s work juxtaposed with "obelisks of industry, spewing forth . . . conglomerations of smoke" and "prodigious scaffolding of monuments under repair" that overlaid an "openwork architecture of a paradoxical beauty" upon the city. The seventeenth-century Pont-Neuf—the oldest surviving bridge in Paris at the time—was one such monument undergoing extensive renovation when Meryon made this print.
- Artist
- Charles Meryon
- Date
- 1853
- Medium
- Etching and drypoint; seventh state of eleven
- Department
- Drawings and Prints
- Credit line
- Gift of Theodore De Witt, 1917
