This work is known to us through the Larensche Kunsthandel’s exhibition catalogue. Two sketches which appear in letters by the artist (fig. 1 and 2), the only views of the porte d'Asnières presently known in the work of Philippe Smit, are most certainly related to this lost pastel.

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FIG. 1
"[...] le temps ici est mauvais/ car je suis entrain de faire/ une étude de la porte d'/ Asnieres et il pleut continuel[manque] [...] voila un croquis de la porte/ d'asnières [...]" [sic] (... the wether here is bad, for I am doing a study of the Porte d'Asnières and it rains continuously ... here is a sketch of the Porte d'Asnières ...) (Philippe Smit, ALS to Nicolaas et Berendina Urban, n.d. [before 1914], private archives, Paris).

FIG. 2
Fragment of a letter known from a copy (private collection, Netherlands).

Record last updated June 5, 2017. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.

Citation: Narzt, Andreas and Castellani, Florence. "Porte d'Asnières, Before 1914 (PS 97)." In The Complete Works of Philippe Smit. www.philippesmit.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=97 (accessed on June 28, 2025).

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