The Tuileries Palace Seen from the Seine
Returned to lender
This work of art was on loan to the museum and has since been returned to its lender.Various vessels sit near the arched Pont Royal, the bridge crossing the river Seine at the Tuileries Palace. It was there, at eight o’clock in the morning, that visitors could board a small barge that would take them to Saint-Cloud or Sèvres; from those points it was a "most delightful walk to Versailles," according to the British travel writer Sacheverell Stevens. At a cost of only four sols per passenger in 1716, the journey by water was the least expensive option.
Artwork Details
- Title: The Tuileries Palace Seen from the Seine
- Artist: Nicolas Jean-Baptiste Raguenet (French, 1715–1793)
- Date: 1757
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 17 15/16 × 33 1/16 in. (45.5 × 84 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: Musée Carnavalet—Histoire de Paris (P.279)
- Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts