Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant

Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant is an oil painting created in 1905 by the French artist Robert Antoine Pinchon (1886–1943).

Associated with the new generation of l'École de Rouen[1][2][3] Pinchon executed this work in a Post-Impressionist style with a subdued Fauve or Neo-Impressionist palette of golden yellows and incandescent blues.

[4] Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant is an oil painting on canvas in a horizontal format with dimensions 54 x 73 cm (21.25 by 28.75 in), signed R Pinchon lower left.

The golden yellow highlights generated by the setting sun, off the canvas to the left, are juxtaposed against the grays, blues, violets and greens of the background hillside, the bridge and its massive base pillars, the poplar trees and the River Seine in the foreground.

[5] Robert Antoine Pinchon's first solo exhibition in Paris took place on 15–25 March 1909 at the Galerie des Artistes Modernes run by Chaine and Simonson, with thirty works listed in the catalogue.

A few months later, on 13 November, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, opened a show with fifty-two paintings: three by Claude Monet, nine by Alfred Sisley, three by Armand Guillaumin, one by Auguste Renoir, thirteen by Albert Lebourg, five by Joseph Delattre, two by Charles Frechon and four by Robert Antoine Pinchon (now almost twenty-three years old); Péniches dans la brume, Vue pris du Mont-Garan, Effet de neige, and Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant.

Robert Antoine Pinchon (left), Galerie Legrip, Rouen, April 1905. At this 27 April – 13 May show, Pinchon, at the age of 19, exhibited 24 paintings, one of which is Le Pont aux Anglais, soleil couchant (top center). The two persons on the right are unidentified, though one may be art collector François Depeaux . [ 1 ]
Le Pont aux Anglais, in Rouen
Rouen, Le Pont aux Anglais
Rouen, La Ville et le Pont aux Anglais