From Bas-Meudon, Old Lavoir

Series Title: Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower

1902

Printed by Verneau

Culture

France, early 20th century

Medium

color lithograph

Support

Smooth cream wove paper

Measurements

Support: 33 x 38.1 cm (13 x 15 in.); Image: 17.1 x 21.1 cm (6 3/4 x 8 5/16 in.); Sheet: 22.4 x 26.8 cm (8 13/16 x 10 9/16 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of John Bonebrake 2003.394

Catalogue raisonné

Fields p. 78, plate 29

Edition

500 plus 50 deluxe

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Location

Not on view

Description

A close friend of Edgar Degas’s and a prolific printmaker, Henri Rivière set out to fully represent the Paris of his day through a series of 36 widely varying perspectives. Each image was united by the presence of the distinctive Eiffel Tower. The city’s laundry industry features throughout the prints, which centers on a weathered wash boat in Bas-Meudon, an industrial suburb both physically and mentally removed from Paris, barely visible in the distance.