The Pont de Maincy is a painting by a French painter Paul Cézanne who resided during this period in Melun, a neighboring commune of Maincy, France.
The work, measuring from 58.5 cm south 72.5 cm, is preserved at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Main exhibitions: London (1914, 1996), Paris (1926, 1936, 1995, 2011), Beijing (1989), New York (2005).
History, subject, and conservation Created between 1879 and 1880 — the identification and dating of the work were not simple — it depicts a bridge that spanned the Almont in the commune of Maincy in France.
Legacy In 1993, the Peruvian painter Herman Braun-Vega referenced Pont de Maincy in Papaye à la guitare (Cézanne), a realistic inverted still life that dialogues the post-impressionism of Cézanne with a cubist guitar. The intrinsic light of Cézanne's landscape is doubled by the natural extrinsic light to the painting through the shadow play of a sophisticated frame. This painting is "a small confidential discourse between technicians" according to the artist.
See also List of paintings by Paul Cézanne
Notes and references
Bibliography Bernard Dorival, Cézanne, Paris, Tisné, 1948. Joachim Gasquet, Cézanne, Paris, Bernheim jeune, 1921; reissued Paris, Encre Marine, 2002. Michel Hoog, Cézanne, « puissant et solitaire », Paris, Gallimard, coll. « Découvertes Gallimard / Arts » (No. 55), 2011. Lionello Venturi, Cézanne, son art, son œuvre, Paris, Rosenberg, 1936. Ambroise Vollard, Cézanne, Paris, Vollard, 1914. Ambroise Vollard, En écoutant Cézanne, Degas, Renoir, Paris, Grasset, 1938; reissued, Paris, Grasset, 1994.