Le Pont du Gard
by LEE, Frederick Richard, Oil on canvas, 78 x 107 cm
The present signed and dated painting depicts one of France’s greatest surviving feats of engineering which dates from the early Roman Empire. The Pont du Gard is a Roman aqueduct crossing the River Gardon near Nîmes in the south of France. Designed to carry water across the small Gardon river valley, it was part of an aqueduct, nearly 50 km long that brought water from the Fontaines d’Eure springs near Uzes to the Castellum in the Roman city of Nemausus (Nîmes).