Pont de Maincy

The Pont de Maincy is a painting by a French painter Paul Cézanne who resided during this period in Melun, a neighboring commune of Maincy, France.
The work, measuring from 58.5 cm south 72.5 cm, is preserved at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Main exhibitions: London, Paris, Beijing, New York.

History, subject, and conservation

Created between 1879 and 1880 — the identification and dating of the work were not simple — it depicts a bridge that spanned the Almont in the commune of Maincy in France.

Legacy

In 1993, the Peruvian painter Herman Braun-Vega referenced Pont de Maincy in Papaye à la guitare , a realistic inverted still life that dialogues the post-impressionism of Cézanne with a cubist guitar. The intrinsic light of Cézanne's landscape is doubled by the natural extrinsic light to the painting through the shadow play of a sophisticated frame. This painting is "a small confidential discourse between technicians" according to the artist.