This print is an engraved interpretation of a painting by Hubert Robert (1733-1808). The latter represents the destruction, starting in 1786, of a part of the houses built on the Notre Dame bridge, which connected the quai de Gesvres to the quai de la Corse on the Île de la Cité. The artist presents ...
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This print is an engraved interpretation of a painting by Hubert Robert (1733-1808). The latter represents the destruction, starting in 1786, of a part of the houses built on the Notre Dame bridge, which connected the quai de Gesvres to the quai de la Corse on the Île de la Cité. The artist presents himself here as a painter of urban reality and documents the changes experienced by the capital after the Revolution.
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