Title: Pont Royal
Ownership: Muzeum Regionalne w Stalowej Woli
Inventory number: MRS/S/276
Section: Sztuka
Date of creation: 1922
Type: painting
Creator / Label: Karpiński Alfons (1875-1961)
Place of origin: Francja, Paryż
Material: cardboard, oil paints
Technique: oil painting
Dimensions: 48 cm x 37 cm
Description: This beautiful landscape, capturing an impression in grey hues, inspired by Japanese woodblock prints, is one of the artist’s several works depicting bridges on the Seine. It shows the Pont Royal as it was in 1922, during Karpiński’s first visit to Paris with his wife. It was also that year that he met Olga Boznańska in person.
The Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola holds a sketch of the Pont de l’Archevêché (inv. no. MRS/S/125).
Exhibited:
– Stalowa Wola, 2013 – Alfons Karpiński (1875–1961). In Kraków and in Paris, Regional Museum in Stalowa Wola