Pont Neuf, Paris - Canvas Prints Beach Walters Museum of Art

Walters Museum of Art

The man in the painting was at one time thought to be Franchino Gaffurio

The installation of the collection at the Museum caused the expansion of the museum building

Renoir executed the painting in what are now the Musée de Montmartre gardens

The mirror is placed between two windows

Pont Neuf, Paris - Canvas Prints Beach Walters Museum of ArtWhile his figure paintings are better known, Renoir's landscapes resonate with a vigor and freshness of vision central to the development of impressionism, most apparent here in his transcription of the effects of sunlight. Midday sun suffuses the panorama, its intensity heightening the artist's palette and suppressing incidental detail to clarify the crowded scene.