1919
50.9×61.8cm, drawing heightened with watercolour on paper
Inscription: b.r. ‘Paris’ and t.r. ‘bare trees’ and verso ‘Pont Neuf No 5’
Standard reference: Bunt 483/484
Owner: Arents House, Bruges (0.1075)
Provenance: Brangwyn gift
Lit and Ill: Marechal, 1987, p197
Ill: Brangwyn Portfolio 45 (36x45cm)
Pont Neuf on the left with the floating wash-house and barges moored on the quay. Hazy city background. This lavoir or wash-house was permanently moored next to the Pont Neuf for the working classes to wash their laundry. Johan Jongkind painted this particular lavoir in 1850 and Mortimer Menpes in 1909.