Description of Van Gogh's Painting
Van Gogh's painting The Seine with the Pont de la Grande Jatte, also mentioned Bridge at Courbevoie, 1887.
Seurat had already depicted the bridge and Van Gogh had seen that painting. The view of Van Gogh's painting is northwest, with the bank of the Seine on the right and the oofs of a few houses in Courboise in the backround. The old bridge is replaced in 1965.
The painting is made in July 1887. The period Van Gogh worked in Asnières. The bridge is painted on a loosely woven canvas. The ground is with, and thin for their effect of speeding up the drying process as well as producing, Van Gogh's favorite, a relatively matt picture surface.
Van Gogh used his
perspective frame for this painting. The Bridge at Courbevoise has much in common with the painting
Bank of the Seine. Both examine the effects of sunlight on flowing water. And both made in a single session.
Van Gogh used thick, almost dry paint from which he soaked out the surplus medium with blotting paper. In the sky pale pink and blue strokes mix to form purple, with pale yellow forming a contrast. There are complementary contrsts elsewhere too: blue and orange in the bridge and the water, and red and grreen in the row of trees. Cochineal on a tin substrate for the figures in the boat.
Copy is made on the same canvas, and ground, and with the use of the same colors Van Gogh did. >
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