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The Saint Michel Bridge, Paris, 1950
Renée TOURNAN-BRESSON (c. 1918–c. 1970)
The Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, 1950
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
33 x 55 cm
Born Bresson, Renée Tournan was a French painter born in Algiers. In Paris, she studied under Fernand Sabatté and Georges d'Espagnat and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1937. She married in 1938 and from then on signed her work "Renée Tournan." She exhibited in Paris in 1941 at the Lefranc Gallery and continued to paint picturesque scenes of Parisian life into the 1950s and 1960s.
This painting depicts the Pont Saint-Michel in Paris, which connects the Place Saint-Michel to the Île de la Cité, shown here on the left of the painting. Built in 1857, it is 62 meters long and 30 meters wide, and comprises three arches. centerpiece. In the center of the transom of each pier is an "N", recalling the imperial emblem of Napoleon III.
The Pont Saint-Michel, Paris, 1950
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
33 x 55 cm
Born Bresson, Renée Tournan was a French painter born in Algiers. In Paris, she studied under Fernand Sabatté and Georges d'Espagnat and exhibited at the Salon d'Automne in 1937. She married in 1938 and from then on signed her work "Renée Tournan." She exhibited in Paris in 1941 at the Lefranc Gallery and continued to paint picturesque scenes of Parisian life into the 1950s and 1960s.
This painting depicts the Pont Saint-Michel in Paris, which connects the Place Saint-Michel to the Île de la Cité, shown here on the left of the painting. Built in 1857, it is 62 meters long and 30 meters wide, and comprises three arches. centerpiece. In the center of the transom of each pier is an "N", recalling the imperial emblem of Napoleon III.
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