Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed and inscribed: (lower right) JeanBéraud.; (center) FETE / DE SEVRES / . . .
Gallery Label This painting of about 1880–81 depicts the Pont des Arts, a footbridge spanning the Seine between the Institut de France and the Cour Carré of the Louvre. Béraud positioned himself on the Quai du Louvre; the cupola of the Institut is visible in the background.
Provenance Solomon Loeb, New York (in 1895); his daughter-in-law, Eda K. Loeb, New York (until d. 1951)
Exhibition History New York. Madison Square Garden. "Fair in Aid of Educational Alliance and Hebrew Technical Institute," December 1895, no. 39 (as "A Windy Day," lent by Solomon Loeb, Esq.).
References Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. "XIX Century." French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art . 2, New York, 1966, pp. 216–17, ill.The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the Late Nineteenth Century . New Haven, 1988, p. 7, colorpl. 8.Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte 62 (1999), p. 519, fig. 8.Jean Béraud, 1849–1935, The Belle Époque: A Dream of Times Gone By: Catalogue raisonné . Cologne, 1999, pp. 160–61, no. 168, ill. (color).
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