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The Wandering Jew: The Plain (page 21)

1898

Henri Rivière

(French, 1864–1951)
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Culture
France, late 19th Century
Medium
color lithograph
Support
Wove paper
Measurements
Overall: 24.5 x 32.2 x 1 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 x 3/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer in memory of Robert Lundie Shearer 2000.165.e
Catalogue raisonné
Fields p. 75
Copyright
Copyright
This artwork is known to be under copyright.
Location
Not on view
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Description

In Paris, Rivière built a shadow theater in the Chat Noir cabaret, a focus for Parisian avant-garde art and entertainment in the 1890s. Silhouettes made of zinc were moved across a screen placed in front of a light source. The plays that Rivière produced for the shadow theater were reproduced as songbook illustrations conceived as layers of silhouettes.

The Wandering Jew: The Plain (page 21)

1898

Henri Rivière

(French, 1864–1951)
France, late 19th Century

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