Le Petit-Pont, après l'incendie de 1718 (P1870)

This second version of the Petit-Pont fire scene at the Musée Carnavalet, dated 1701 in its record but likely painted around 1718 like its companion, represents Oudry documenting the same event from a different viewpoint or at a different stage. The unusual year attribution may reflect a cataloguing anomaly or a revision of dating. The Musée Carnavalet's decision to hold two related paintings by Oudry of this subject reflects the museum's commitment to preserving multiple visual testimonies to the same Parisian event, as was its practice with significant episodes in the city's history. Viewing the two versions together would have allowed contemporaries to reconstruct a fuller picture of the fire's extent and aftermath. The existence of two paintings on the same subject also suggests that Oudry recognised this topographic subject as commercially viable—unusual for an artist not primarily associated with view painting.

The existence of a companion picture required Oudry to adopt a different pictorial strategy to avoid simple repetition: different angle, different time of day, or a focus on different elements of the aftermath. His paint application in this version may show subtle differences from the companion work, reflecting the natural variation in speed and approach between related works executed in proximity.