#35 Les Péniches, Henri Rivière

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Henri Rivière, #35 Les Péniches
Henri Rivière, #35 Les Péniches
Henri Rivière
#35 Les Péniches
1888–1902
Henri Rivière
1864–1951
#35 Les Péniches, 1888–1902
Portfolio/Series title: Les Trente - Six Vues de la Tour Eiffel
Where object was made: France
Material/technique: Rives BFK™ paper; color lithograph
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 170 x 211 mm
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 227 x 265 mm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 11/16 x 8 5/16 in
Sheet/Paper Dimensions (Height x Width): 8 15/16 x 10 7/16 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 14 x 19 in
Credit line: Museum purchase: Lucy Shaw Schultz Fund
Accession number: 2001.0008
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Exhibition Label: "Inspired by Japan," Mar-203, Cori Sherman This series depicts varying views of the construction phases of the Eiffel Tower, built for the Paris Universel Exposition in 1889. This concept closely parallels Hokusai’s series, 36 Views of Mt. Fuji, with its extreme variations of perspective and vantage points, atmospheric conditions, and season and times of day. But the Rivière’s series also owes a considerable debt to Hiroshige’s compositional surprises found in his set of 100 Famous Views of Edo, published 1856-8. One sheet from that series included in this exhibition, Benten Shrine from the Ferry at Haneda of 1858, supplies a wonderful example of the bold framing effects from figures and objects crowded close to the two-dimensional picture plane but truncated in unusual ways by edges of the scene.