- Titles Pont Royal (Proper)@Pont Neuf / Pont Neuve [sic] (Alternate)
- Artist Willard LeRoy Metcalf, American, 1858 - 1925
- Medium oil on canvas
- Dimensions 26 x 29 in. (66 x 73.7 cm) frame: 34 3/8 × 37 1/4 × 2 3/4 in. (87.3 × 94.6 × 7 cm)
- Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Cook, AFI.288.2010
- Work Type painting
- Classification Paintings
- On View
- Signature Lower left: W. [partially obscured] L. METCALF - / Paris — 1913 Verso, lower right: PONT ROYAL — PARIS / W. L. METCALF — 1913
- Inscription In file, blue adhesive label: Bham Collects / 16.1986
- Provenance Duncan Phillips (1886-1966), Washington, DC; American Art Association Auction, Catalogue #48, Feb. 27, 1922; M. Knoedler and Company, New York, NY (Consigned by the artist); Billings Estate Corporation*; Eberhard L. Lueder (1878-1939), New York, NY; Acquired from the Lueder Estate by Macbeth Gallery, New York, NY**; Purchased by High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, in 1939, with funds provided by Mrs. Florence Hinman, Atlanta, Georgia, in memory of her husband, Dr. Thomas P. Hinman (1870-1931); Sold to Chapellier Galleries, New York, NY, October 1973; Hall Galleries, Dallas, TX, 1977-78; Goldfield Galleries, Los Angeles, CA, 1979; Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Cook, Birmingham, Alabama, since 1979; Partial and promised gift of Mr. and Mrs. Donald L. Cook to the Art Fund, Inc., at the Birmingham Museum of Art (December 28, 2010)
Provenance Note(s):
*Land and other assets belonging to Frederick Billings (1823-1890), president of the Northern Pacific Rail Road Company, and his wife Julia Parmly Billings (1835-1914) were incorporated as the Billings Estate Corporation. The Billings Estate Corporation began selling its real estate holdings in 1920, and exhibition records indicate that the corporation was in possession of an art collection as late as 1922.
**According to a letter dated August 22, 1939, from A. D. Whiteside of New York to Walter C. Hill of Atlanta, "Levy has the picture picture which was originally owned by the Billings Estate and sold to Eberhart Luder [sic], whose Estate now owns it. / As you known, eight or ten of the dealers around the 57th & 5th Avenue neighborhood exchange pictures back and forth." This undoubtedly refers to John Levy Galleries, previously located at 1 E. 57th St., which in 1939 briefly relocated to 11 E. 57th St., the building in which Macbeth Gallery was housed at that time.
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