The Bridge between Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise

1867

In Daubigny’s view of Beaumont, a town north of Paris, the thirteenth-century church tower rises above a cluster of buildings. A low stone bridge links Beaumont to the more industrial town of Persan on the opposite bank of the River Oise, but the artist has deliberately omitted any sign of modernity. Instead, the two figures watching over a line of geese in the foreground give the scene a pastoral quality.

Medium	oil on panel
Dimensions	15 1/8 x 26 7/16 in. (38.4 x 67.1 cm) Frame: 24 3/8 x 35 1/4 x 2 3/4 in. (61.9 x 89.5 x 7 cm)
Object Number	1955.694
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	On View

Image Caption

Charles-François Daubigny, The Bridge between Persan and Beaumont-sur-Oise, 1867, oil on panel. Clark Art Institute, 1955.694

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Provenance

Delagarde (in 1892); [Georges Petit, Paris, sold to Knoedler, 26 Apr. 1927]; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 9 June 1927, as Le Pont de Persan-Beaumont]; Robert Sterling Clark (1927–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.