Keywords: Johan Barthold Jongkind, The Pont Neuf, ca. 1849–50.jpg Artwork Creator Johan Barthold Jongkind This view is based on drawings Musée du Louvre Paris that Jongkind made along the Seine in 1849 the year he began to paint scenes of Paris He took liberties with the prospect by reducing the number of the bridge ™s arches from five to four eliminating the Place Dauphine and making Notre-Dame Cathedral appear closer than it is from this vantage point on the river ™s left bank These alterations together with the dramatic sky and open brushwork amount to a composition very much in the manner of Jongkind ™s mentor the Romantic marine painter Eugène Isabey 1803 “1886 circa 1849 “50 Oil on canvas cm 54 6 81 6 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history credit line Gift of Mr and Mrs Walter Mendelsohn 1980 accession number 1980 203 3 436787 <gallery> Johan Barthold Jongkind The Pont Neuf jpg Johan Barthold Jongkind - Boot wasplaats de buurt van de Pont Neuf Parijs jpg </gallery> PD-100 Johan Barthold Jongkind Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Paintings of Paris by Johan Barthold Jongkind Paintings of Notre-Dame de Paris Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Historical images of Pont Neuf Paintings of the Seine in Paris Cityscape paintings of Paris Paintings of bridges in Paris Paintings of boats 1850s paintings Notre-Dame de Paris in the 1840s |