Study for View of the Pont de Sèvres (Q28130705)

description: <p>This colorful landscape is a study for a larger work that depicts vehicles for flight, including a biplane, dirigible, and balloon, the last of which appears here. A gray hot air balloon without a gondola floats without a pilot or an apparent destination over the River Seine. As a customs worker, Rousseau spent many hours taking in views of bridges and points of passage into the city of through towns like Sèvres, a southwestern suburb of Paris known for its porcelain manufacturing.</p>

keywords adult person architecture bathers boat bridge building canal daylight downtown dug-out pool flood gondola home hotel house house house houses houses housing landscape leisure mansion mountain village nature no person outdoors outside people person plant plaza pool public square public square recreation resort river scenery sky swimming swimming pool town travel tree triangle two village waterfront waterway a house next to a body of water