The Pont d’Avignon or Pont Saint-Bénézet once had 22 arches. The bridge was eventually abandon as the arches took too much upkeep due to being damaged when the Rhone river would flood. The four remaining arches are believed to have been built around 1345. The bridge was the inspiration for the song Sur le pont d’Avignon. The subject for this work began with a plein air sketch while I was standing on the riverbank on an early morning in June of 2014 in Avignon France.
- Subject Matter: landscape
- Created: July 03, 2014
- Inventory Number: TW1278O
- Collections: Best Contemporary Landscape Paintings of the Decade 2010 to 2019, Europe paintings