Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower: From the Grenelle Bridge (1902): Art, History and Details

Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower: From the Grenelle Bridge (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:

As the center of Paris became an increasingly costly place to live, people with moderate incomes moved further out to places like Grenelle, on the southwest border of the city. Industry was also routed out of central Paris for aesthetic and sanitary reasons so that smokestacks were a common sight along the city’s perimeter. Grenelle was home to a number of metal-working industries, and in this scene the Eiffel Tower, close to the composition’s center, adopts the form of a factory smokestack. A white cloud at its tip suggests a puff of smoke.

Object facts

• Title: Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower: From the Grenelle Bridge
• Date: 1902
• Creator attribution: Henri Rivière (French, 1864–1951); Printed by Verneau
• Culture: France, early 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 22.3 x 26.7 cm (8 3/4 x 10 1/2 in.); Image: 17 x 21.2 cm (6 11/16 x 8 3/8 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2003.391

Collection credit

Gift of John Bonebrake

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