Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Double-Arched Bridge

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
1736-1810

Double-Arched Bridge

1776
6 1/8 x 9 1/4 inches (156 x 235 mm)
Brush and gray wash. Verso: outline sketch in graphite of mountain and trees.
III, 119b

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909.

Inscriptions/Markings
Signed and dated at lower right, in graphite, "DB 1776"; inscribed by the artist at lower left, "pont De Dorcieu (?)".
Summary

As Pierre Rosenberg noted, Boissieu made at least one other drawing of this bridge in the village of Dorcieu near Lyon. That drawing, now in the collection of the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco (Hattis 1977, no. 28a, repr.) shows the bridge from the left side of the embankment.

Associated names
Mayor, William, 1826-1892, former owner.
Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919, former owner.
Morgan, J. Pierpont (John Pierpont), 1837-1913, former owner.
Classification
Century Drawings
School
Department