Langlois Bridge
43.6569464.621135Koordinaten: 43 ° 39 ' 25 "N, 4 ° 37' 16.1 " E
Pont de Langlois, so actually Langloisbrücke or bridge of Arles, end of the nineteenth century was the popular name of a wooden bascule bridge at Arles. Langlois was namely its bridge warden.
World famous was this bridge by Vincent van Gogh, she probably remembered his homeland, as he drew and painted between mid-March and mid-May 1888 in several versions. Also on one of his paintings from 1883 already seems to be the motif " drawbridge " on (F 1098 ). In letter 488 he wrote to his brother: " Many of the motifs are in character the same as in Holland. " However, the name of the bridge misinterpreted the artist, because he hardly understood the Provencal language: In the letters 469 and 488 he calls her Pont de l ' Anglais ( bridge of the Englishman ), whereby the spelling Pont de l' Anglois occasionally received to this day, and as the unfortunate translation into German as a bridge of Langlois.
His work on this subject provided in addition to sketches, drawings and a watercolor four major oil paintings. After an early sketch that had sent van Gogh to his friend Émile Bernard (JH 1370 B2), he had a (presumably first ) started painting that failed and is only a fragment remained, however. It merely shows the couple, a theme which the artist (probably last) resumed in a reed pen drawing of the bridge.
The oldest of the oil paintings now hangs in the Kröller -Müller Museum ( Otterlo, The Netherlands); the other three are located in the Van Gogh Museum ( Amsterdam), the Wallraf -Richartz Museum (Cologne) and privately owned. In addition to the above-mentioned fragments in oil five other versions of the subject are known, namely, a watercolor, drawings and sketches.
Van Gogh's pictures
- The Langlois Bridge
... With washerwomen (F 397, March, Kröller -Müller Museum)
With ... road along the canal ( F 400, March, Van Gogh Museum )
(F 571, April, privately owned)
(F 570, May, Wallraf -Richartz Museum )
Watercolor ( F 1480, April )
Study ( F 1416v, May)
Reed pen drawing ( F 1470, May)
Drawing ( F 1471, May)
The Bridge
Had built of the eleven identical drawbridges that opened up a Dutch engineer along the Canal d' Arles 1834 à Bouc 1820-1830, survived only by the Fos -sur -Mer the Second World War. 1944, is destroyed with this exception, all the bridges over the canal by German troops. The painted by van Gogh was, however, already been replaced around 1930 by a reinforced concrete bridge.
There were 1888 in Arles, two bridges over the canal, the first of which about 70, a second around 540 yards away from the junction of the canal from the river Rhone, which at the time was next to the present N113 ( sketch).
Since the background of the Amsterdam oil painting ( 400 F ) on the left side a bridge and center the spiers of Saint -Césaire, Saint- Martin and Saint Trophimus are recognizable, the painter had the southern to the topic. In the subsequent conversion of the channel entrance, the lock channel ( canal de l' écluse ) remained only receive them.
This is the only surviving copy of the original structures. It was dismantled in 1959 Fos, erected in 1962 in Arles and completely restored in 1997. Although it is now about 2 km as the crow south of the former Langlois Bridge at Rue Gaspard Monge, but slightly out of town in a landscape that has similarity with the so gladly seen by the painter. The location of the real Langlois Bridge would be in long verbautem area and would therefore not come too traffic reasons in question.
Langlois Bridge, 1902
Van Gogh Bridge, 2007
Van Gogh Bridge, 2003
Langlois Bridge ( red) and Van Gogh Bridge ( green); Channel entrance 1888 ( blue).
The bridge is a wooden swing rods symmetrically constructed bridge ( Dutch bridge ), which is a bascule bridge, with small amounts of metal (chains, bolts). Typical are the overhead counterweights. The support is made of masonry. The two bridge flaps are each four feet long, that span eight meters. Also four meters is in the open state, the passage width between the free ends of the bridge flap. The pillars on which the swing rods are stored have a height of about five meters, fly rods are 8.3 meters long.