Apr 18, 2025
On the Pont de l’Europe
Artist: Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848-1894)
Date: 1876-1877
Medium: Oil on canvas
Collection: Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Description
The Pont de l’Europe overlooks the Saint-Lazare train station, which was famously portrayed by Monet in a dozen paintings made early in 1877 and included at the third Impressionist exhibition that year. It is at least possible that Caillebotte (who soon purchased three of Monet’s variations on the station theme) refrained from showing his masterful On the Pont de l’Europe at the same exhibition in order not to compete.
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