Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower: From the Grenelle Bridge

1902

Printed by Verneau

Culture

France, early 20th century

Medium

color lithograph

Support

Beige (1) wove with watermark

Measurements

Sheet: 22.3 x 26.7 cm (8 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.); Image: 17 x 21.2 cm (6 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Bonebrake 2003.391

Catalogue raisonné

Fields p. 78, plate 20

Edition

500 plus 50 deluxe

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Location

Not on view

Description

As the center of Paris became an increasingly costly place to live, people with moderate incomes moved further out to places like Grenelle, on the southwest border of the city. Industry was also routed out of central Paris for aesthetic and sanitary reasons so that smokestacks were a common sight along the city’s perimeter. Grenelle was home to a number of metal-working industries, and in this scene the Eiffel Tower, close to the composition’s center, adopts the form of a factory smokestack. A white cloud at its tip suggests a puff of smoke.