The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 24, 2024
The Wandering Jew: Old Man Walking by the Sea
1898
(French, 1864–1951)
Overall: 24.5 x 32.2 x 1 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 x 3/8 in.)
Location: not on view
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.- {{cite web|title=The Wandering Jew: Old Man Walking by the Sea |url=false|author=Henri Rivière|year=1898|access-date=24 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.165