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Pont de Maincy

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Pont de Maincy
ArtistPaul Cézanne
Completion date1879-1880
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions58.5 cm × 72.5 cm (23.0 in × 28.5 in)
LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

The Pont de Maincy is a painting by a French painter Paul Cézanne who resided during this period in Melun, a neighboring commune of Maincy, France.

The work, measuring from 58.5 cm south 72.5 cm, is preserved at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.[1]

Main exhibitions: London (1914, 1996), Paris (1926, 1936, 1995, 2011), Beijing (1989), New York (2005).[2]

History, subject, and conservation

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Created between 1879 and 1880[3] — the identification and dating of the work were not simple[3] — it depicts a bridge that spanned the Almont in the commune of Maincy in France.[4]

Legacy

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In 1993, the Peruvian painter Herman Braun-Vega referenced Pont de Maincy in Papaye à la guitare (Cézanne), a realistic inverted still life[5] that dialogues the post-impressionism of Cézanne with a cubist guitar. The intrinsic light of Cézanne's landscape is doubled by the natural extrinsic light to the painting through the shadow play of a sophisticated frame. This painting is "a small confidential discourse between technicians" according to the artist.[6]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Pont de Maincy". Musée d'Orsay.
  2. ^ "Musée d'Orsay: Notice d'Oeuvre". www.musee-orsay.fr (in French). Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  3. ^ a b "Pont de Maincy". Musée d'Orsay.
  4. ^ 48°33′01″N 2°40′47″E / 48.550148°N 2.679741°E / 48.550148; 2.679741
  5. ^ Rodolfo Hinostroza; Jorge Semprún; Eduardo Arroyo; Alfredo Bryce Echenique; Leslie Lee Crosby; Patrick Fourneret; Jean-Luc Chalumeau; Jean-Pierre Van Tieghem; Julio Ramón Ribeyro; Alain Irlandes (1995). "Fenêtres, Tables, Natures Mortes". Braun-Vega, peintures et dessins. Wamani Éditeur. p. 46. ISBN 2-909496-05-8. [...] table, window, landscape, still life interpenetrate naturally and create a space that transitions seamlessly from the tangible and fleshy nature of the exotic fruits occupying the entire foreground to the "Cézanne-like" landscape bathed in sunlight
  6. ^ Patrick Fourneret (1995). Braun-Vega en 24 tableaux et un entretien (livret d'accompagnement du Compact-Disc Interactif). Besançon: CRDP de Franche-Comté. pp. 52–53.

Bibliography

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  • Bernard Dorival, Cézanne, Paris, Tisné, 1948.
  • Joachim Gasquet, Cézanne, Paris, Bernheim jeune, 1921; reissued Paris, Encre Marine, 2002.
  • Michel Hoog, Cézanne, « puissant et solitaire », Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Arts » (No. 55), 2011.
  • Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son œuvre, Paris, Rosenberg, 1936.
  • Ambroise Vollard, Cézanne, Paris, Vollard, 1914.
  • Ambroise Vollard, En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, Paris, Grasset, 1938; reissued, Paris, Grasset, 1994.