From Bas-Meudon, Old Lavoir (1902): Art, History and Details

From Bas-Meudon, Old Lavoir (1902) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Henri Rivière (French, 1864–1951); Printed by Verneau.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: From Bas-Meudon, Old Lavoir
• Date: 1902
• Creator attribution: Henri Rivière (French, 1864–1951); Printed by Verneau
• Culture: France, early 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: 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.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2003.394

Collection credit

Gift of John Bonebrake

Further reading listed by the museum

• Salsbury, Britany. Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.

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