Le Pont de l'Europe
by CAILLEBOTTE, Gustave, Oil on canvas, 125 x 181 cm
The image shows pedestrians in the Place de l’Europe in the 8th arrondissement of Paris. The plaza is a large bridge (Pont de l’Europe, English: Europa Bridge) joining six avenues, each named for a European capital, over the railroad yards at Gare Saint-Lazare. The view is from the rue de Vienne, looking towards the centre of the plaza.
Caillebotte exhibited this image at the impressionist exhibition of 1877, alongside Claude Monet’s Le Pont de l’Europe, Gare Saint-Lazare, which gives an alternate view of the bridge.