A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris: View of Pont de la Tournelle & Notre Dame taken from the Arsenal
1802
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1802
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
A Selection of Twenty of the Most Picturesque Views in Paris: View of Pont de la Tournelle & Notre Dame taken from the Arsenal is a 1802 by Girtin, a Romanticism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a wide, misty river with a stone bridge and the towers of Notre Dame rising behind bare trees. Girtin painted this in Paris during a brief peace in 1802. He used watercolor like oil paint—layering washes to build depth without heavy brushstrokes. The sky feels alive, the clouds almost moving. If you like this quiet light, look up the technique called *sfumato*.
