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| Keywords: Johan Barthold Jongkind, View from the Quai d'Orsay, 1854.jpg Gallery Label This view from the left bank of the Seine River encompasses the Tuileries Gardens and the Louvre at left and the Palais d'Orsay and Hôtel de Salm Palais de la Légion d'Honneur at right The inclusion of the laundry barge and industrial cranes underscores the importance of the river to the Parisian working class After arriving in France in the late 1840s from Holland Jongkind often sketched scenes along the banks of the Seine Later in his studio he transformed his sketches into oil paintings such as this one which was included in the 1855 Exposition Universelle in Paris 1854 Oil on canvas mounted on wood Size cm 43 8 66 Institution Metropolitan Museum of Art object history exhibition history credit line Bequest of Meta Cecile Schwarz 2001 438381 Signed and dated lower right Jongkind 54 accession number 2001 652 PD-100 Paintings of Paris by Johan Barthold Jongkind Images of Paris from the Metropolitan Museum of Art Jardin des Tuileries in art Paintings of the Palais du Louvre Palais d'Orsay Hôtel de Salm Quai d'Orsay Paris Paintings of the Seine in Paris Cranes machines in art 1854 in Paris 1854 paintings Boats in Paris Boats in art Paintings of bridges in Paris Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||
