This painting shows a riverside with a cream-colored bridge cutting horizontally across the scene in front of a bustling city. The bridge is decorated with flags that have stripes of red, white, and blue. Closest to us, at the bottom of the painting, large white barges are moored on the reflective blue river, with small people in white shirts floating nearby on wooden platforms. On the left, a pale gray path stretches along the side of the river, with some pedestrians walking on it. In the distance on the right, tall buildings are visible in shades of yellow, blue, peach, and cream. They…
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The Bridge of Louis Philippe

Jean-Baptiste-Armand Guillaumin (French, 1841 - 1927)

1875

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 45.8 x 60.5 cm (18 1/16 x 23 13/16 in.) ; framed: 61.9 x 75.9 cm (24 3/8 x 29 7/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

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