Le Pont de l'Europe

Le Pont de l'Europe (English title: The Europe Bridge) is an oil painting by French impressionist Gustave Caillebotte completed in 1876.

The plaza is a large bridge joining six avenues, each named for a European capital, over the railroad yards at Gare Saint-Lazare.

Three people are seen in the foreground: a couple walking toward the observer, and a working-class man peering off the bridge toward the train station.

Feminist art historian Norma Broude has suggested that Caillebotte, a lifelong bachelor, is signalling his own homosexuality with this gaze.

In this reading, Caillebotte is an upper-class man cruising for a lower-class male prostitute in this unsavory neighborhood of Paris.

Utagawa Hiroshige , One Hundred Famous Views of Edo - #90, Night View of Saruwaka-machi , 1856