拍品專文
In November 1900, Camille Pissarro moved to an apartment at 28 rue Dauphine on the Ile de la Cit in Paris, near the raised terrace of the Pont-Neuf. In January of the following year he began work on an extended series of paintings showing in the foreground the Square du Vert-Galant (the name was derived from the description given to the sexual prowess of Henry IV, the 16th century French king, whose statue appears in the center of the square, just out-of-sight in the present painting), with the Pont des Arts in the middle distance and the newly-renovated facade of the Louvre visible on the far bank of the Seine. Within a year Pissarro completed no fewer than 21 paintings of the Square du Vert-Galant and the Pont-Neuf, his largest series, working in a variety of formats, shifting the the view between three different vantage points and depicting different times-of-day and atmospheric conditions. He continued to work on this series during the winter months for the next two years.