Le Pont Royal et le Pavillon de Flore, Matin, Soleil

Le Pont Royal et le Pavillon de Flore, Matin, Soleil was painted in 1903, one of the last years of Pissarro's life and part of his extended urban series documenting Paris from hotel windows. The Pont Royal connects the Tuileries Garden to the Left Bank, with the Pavillon de Flore of the Louvre visible in the background. Pissarro treated this composition in morning sunlight — less common than his overcast views — and the result has a directness of color and clarity of form that distinguishes it from the atmospheric haze of his Thames series. The work is now in the Petit Palais, Paris.

Short, vibrant strokes arranged in Pissarro's late Divisionist manner build the sunlit facades in warm yellows and ochres. Cool blues anchor the river surface. The bridge provides a firm horizontal axis that structures the otherwise animated distribution of color and movement.