Louis Orr

Le Pont Neuf, Vu de L'Ecluse de la Monnaie (The Pont Neuf, View of the Monnaie Lock)

Louis Orr's original etching, "Le Pont Neuf, Vu de L'Ecluse de la Monnaie" is printed on thick, wove paper and with full margins as published by the Chalographie du Louvre in Paris in 1917. It is signed by the artist in the plate. "Le Pont Neuf, Vu de L'Ecluse de la Monnaie" is one of Louis Orr's largest and most impressive Paris architectural etchings. It depicts Le Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge in Paris with a view of L'Ecluse de la Monnaie which was a lock on the narrow branch of the Siene, in service from 1838 until it demolition in 1923. The plate for this etching was purchased by the French Government and is housed in the permanent collection of the Louvre.

Le Pont Neuf, Vu de L'Ecluse de la Monnaie (The Pont Neuf, View of the Monnaie Lock)

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Title:	Le Pont Neuf, Vu de L'Ecluse de la Monnaie (The Pont Neuf, View of the Monnaie Lock)
Artist:	Orr, Louis (Hartford, Connecticut, 1879 - Paris, 1935)
Date:	1917
Medium:	Original Etching
Publisher:	Chalographie du Louvre, Paris
Note:	Louis Orr: A premier American etcher who was most renowned for his large, atmospheric etchings of Paris, Louis Orr went to France in 1906 to study and work in the studio of J. P. Laurens. His first original etchings date from 1908. During the following twenty years he built his fame on large-scale architectural renditions of Paris and other French cities and ports. During the 1920's, these etchings made Louis Orr one of the most sought after artists on both sides of the Atlantic, and editions of his prints were usually sold out before the actual date of publication. The French government commissioned a number of his etchings (as is here the case) and the Louvre printed and published his work.
	One might find antecedents for Louis Orr's monumental style in the etchings of Piranesi. In mood and temperament one is also reminded of the art of Charles Meryon. But Orr's art is all his own, fashioned on strong compositional and atmospheric elements, and his unforgettable views of Paris have made him one of the greatest etchers of the early twentieth century.
Raisonne:	G. C. Eglington, The Etchings of Louis Orr, The Print Connoisseur, Truesdell, New York, September, 1921. Vol. II # 1, pp. 68-90.
	Catalogue #27, The plate for this etching was purchased by the French Government and is housed in the permanent collection of the Louvre. Impressions exist in an edition of one hundred artist's proofs (numbered) and in a special Government edition of two hundred impressions. This impression of Le Pont Neuf, Vu de L'Ecluse de la Monnaie hails from the government edition, printed and published by the Louvre.
Size:	19 1/2 X 23 1/4 (Sizes in inches are approximate, height preceding width of plate-mark or image.)
	Matted with 100% Archival Materials
Condition:	Printed on thick, wove paper and with full margins as published by the Louvre in 1917. This original etching is signed by the artist in the plate. A sharp, clear printing. The paper is light stained; otherwise it is in excellent condition throughout. Le Pont Neuf, Vu de L'Ecluse de la Monnaie is one of Louis Orr's largest and most impressive Paris etchings.
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