Study for "Le Petit Pont"

About this work

This sketch shows a simple street scene with a bridge and buildings. The lines are quick and shaky, like a rough draft. There’s a small arch in the middle, and the walls are drawn with faint pencil marks. The artist wrote notes in French about the scene, hinting at details like a ladder and a door. The paper looks old and yellowed, almost like a scrap of paper someone tossed aside. This style of sketching was common in Realism.