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| Keywords: Hippolyte-Auguste Collard, Pont du Point du Jour - Getty Museum.jpg Artwork Creator Hippolyte-Auguste Collard Blick durch die Fufsgangerpassage unter dem Viadukt The subject is the Viaduct of Auteuil an elaborate two-story 1 073-meter-long viaduct with 151 arches that spanned the distance between the town of Auteuil and the Point-du-Jour bridge outside Paris Although the absolute symmetry of the bridge and light posts is compelling and might have attracted another photographer Hippolyte-Auguste Collard made a less obvious choice positioning his camera at the end of the Point du Jour slightly off-center and toward the middle of the right pedestrian arcade This view establishes an unobstructed line of sight to a point in the far distance making the viaduct seem infinite The shadowy sweep of the bridge overhead fans out of the frame like a lopsided crown while a puddle of water just in front of the left pedestrian passageway whose arch bears the stains of seeping water suggests a more mundane problem threatening the impressive structure 1863/1866 Albumen print Image 25 2 x 35 4 cm 9 15/16 x 13 15/16 in Mount 48 1 x 63 cm 18 15/16 x 24 13/16 in Institution Getty Museum object history exhibition history other versions 50723 Markings Recto mount blindstamp at lower center ATELIER CENTRAL DE PHOTOGRAPHIE / COLLARD PHOTOGRAPHE / DES PONTS ET CHAUSSÉES / Bould de Strasbourg 39 <br> Inscriptions Recto mount inscribed in black ink at upper center near corner of image XV credit line accession number 84 XP 776 1 PD-100 Photographs of Paris by Hippolyte-Auguste Collard Viaduc d'Auteuil Paris in the 1860s Albumen prints Photographs in the Getty Museum | ||||
