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The Pont Neuf, Paris

Thomas Shotter Boys

1833

watercolor

From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum

British Romanticism Romanticism Early 19th Century Cityscape Seine

Dominant colour

The Pont Neuf, Paris is a 1833 watercolor by Thomas Shotter Boys, a British Romanticism work, depicting Seine, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.

Who painted this?: Thomas Shotter Boys
When & what style?: 1833 · British Romanticism
Where can I see it?: Victoria and Albert Museum

About this work

Thomas Shotter Boys painted Paris’s Pont Neuf bridge in watercolour around 1833. The scene shows boats on the Seine, old buildings, and people strolling the riverbank. Boys trained as an engraver before switching to lithography. He later fell in love with watercolour, using it to capture light and movement in Paris streets. Look for his work in the Victoria and Albert Museum.

The story of this work

Overview

Thomas Shotter Boys’s watercolour *The Pont Neuf, Paris* (1833) depicts the bridge as viewed from the middle of a downstream bridge along the river. Signed and dated by the artist, the work reflects Boys’s training in engraving and lithography before he adopted watercolour painting in Paris. The composition conveys a sense of light and balance characteristic of his Parisian scenes, aligning with the refined watercolour techniques of contemporaries he admired.

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About the artist

Artist

Thomas Shotter Boys

Thomas Shotter Boys (1803–1874) was an English watercolour painter and lithographer, mostly producing cityscapes and images of buildings, although he produced some rural landscapes and marine subjects.

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