The Pont des Arts, Paris

The Pont des Arts, Paris is an 1826 cityscape painting by the British artist Richard Parkes Bonington.

The Pont des Arts across the River Seine, built during the Napoleonic era, forms the centre of the veduta.

Parkes Bonington was a British artist who lived in France for many years.

He produced a number of landscape paintings, primarily of France and Italy before his death from tuberculosis, aged 25.

He turned to painting scenes of Paris comparatively late in his career.