Pont aux Anglais crossing the Seine River in Rouen, Seine Maritime (France) painted by Robert Antoine Pinchon

"M. Pinchon is foremost a painter impassioned by light. It is the intervention of light that modifies the architecture of the countryside and determines the colors. None of the colors 'theoretically' observed in nature are present in his paintings; rather, all of the tonalities result from the influence of reflected light. The predominance of this intangible element in his scenes communicates an intense impression of life. In his landscapes of Rouen and its environs, streets, squares, rivers, fields, riverbanks, or cliffs, nothing is immobile or absolute."

Léon de Saint Valéry

Boieldieu Bridge across the River Seine in Rouen, Upper Normandy (France)

Plus que ma plume et le sang de ma muse
Plus que la rose amoureuse des vents
Que l'algue bleue au jardin de l'écluse
Plus que la Seine amoureuse de Rouen
Plus que l'érable amoureux des collines
Plus que mon cœur et les orgues du vent
Plus que Pierrot sa douce mandoline
Plus que la Seine amoureuse de Rouen

Song by Michéle Arnaud