Emile Bernard - Les Chiffonniers - Iron Bridge - 1887

When he paints 'les chiffonniers' he is only nineteen years old, he is a very promising, clever, that presents gifts for drawing and writing. He began painting with Van Gogh, and receives a visit from Signac who noticed. Bernard deals with a modern subject : bridges adored by the impressionnists, but eliminating any picturesque character. He invented a new vision, where pictorial creation is more important than the subject represented.