View from the Artist no.9 - answer
February 23 2012
Picture: Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
Three correct answers within 24 hours, the first coming on Twitter within 2. Not too bad, considering it was just a glimpse of a bridge. Most of you thought it was in Italy:
I'm going to guess that view from the artist #9 is a view of Venice by Canaletto.
Right continent, but otherwise quite far out. Another reader, inspired by Shakespeare, wondered:
Is it "In fair VERONA where we lay our scene"? Castelvecchio bridge - it looks like Carel Weight but I can't find this in a quick flit through the net.
And another:
About 'View from the Artist No.9', I think that it is the Ponte Vecchio in Firenze; the artist I don't know.
Two of you spotted the most important clue, the book sellers' boxes by the side of the river, which of course are still there today...
I think I've got it: Pont Neuf from the Quai de l'Ecole, Paris by David Cox, 1829, Yale Center for British Art.
Well done! Treat yourself to a croissant.
