Tag: The Pont Neuf
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Valery Tsarikovsky’s Pont Neuf, with footnotes, Part 97
Estimate at $400-$600 in June 2023 The Pont Neuf (“New Bridge”) is the oldest standing bridge across the river Seine in Paris, France. It stands by the western point of the Île de la Cité, the island in the middle of the river that was, between 250 and 225 BC, the birthplace of Paris, then known…
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01 Painting, Streets of Paris, Jean Béraud’s Le Pont Neuf, with footnotes, Part 85
Estimate for 100,000 – 150,000 GBP in December 2009 Here, Béraud captures the spirit of the moment, as workers, bankers in top hats, bakers, an upholsterer carrying a chair on his head, and cabbies make their way across Paris’s oldest bridge, even in Béraud’s day a listed monument. Shoppers flock to the capital’s recently opened retail…
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