The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 16, 2024
On the Bateau-Mouche
1902
(French, 1864–1951)
Image: 17 x 21 cm (6 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 22.3 x 26.8 cm (8 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1997.140.q
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Catalogue raisonné: Fields, p. 77
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. Here, a laundress appears in a scene dominated by the tower, as she rides with her basket on a bateau-mouche, or water taxi.- ?–1997(Thomas Agnew & Sons, Ltd., London, England), sold to The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OHSeptember 15, 1997–The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Salsbury, Britany. Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023. Reproduced: p. 135, no. 29
- Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2023-January 14, 2024).The Cleveland Museum of Art (10/29/2011 - 01/29/2012); "John Bonebrake Collecton (working title)"
- {{cite web|title=On the Bateau-Mouche|url=false|author=Henri Rivière|year=1902|access-date=16 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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