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Henri Rivière, Georges Auriol, and others

Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower

1888-1902, published 1902

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Henri Rivière, Georges Auriol, and others

Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower

Artist: Henri Rivière
Designer: Georges Auriol
Author (Prologue): Arsène Alexandre
Printer/Publisher: Eugène Verneau

Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower

1888-1902, published 1902

Physical Qualities Bound volume of color lithographs and text, Book: 232 × 293 × 20 mm. (9 1/8 × 11 9/16 × 13/16 in.) Sheet: 270 x 225 mm. (10 5/8 x 8 7/8 in.)

Credit Line Purchased as the gift of Louis Berman, Glyndon, Maryland

Object Number 2001.290

"Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower" was inspired by the Japanese printmaker Katsushika Hokusai’s series of 19th-century color woodcuts entitled "Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji". With this elegant publication, Henri Rivière sought to equate the importance of the Eiffel Tower, a miracle of modern French industrial design completed in 1889, with the spiritual significance of Mount Fuji in Japan. Rivière’s inventive compositions not only document the construction of the tower—based in part on photographs he took from within the heights of the structure itself—but also reveal its impact on the cityscape of Paris. Each page shows the tower from a different vantage point—rooftops and boulevards, parks and bridges—in varying weather conditions and times of year.

Susan Schulman, New York

Rena Hoisington, BMA, "Off the Shelf: Modern and Contemporary Artists' Books," May Gallery, March 12 - June 25, 2017.

Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004. ["The Tower under Construction, View from the Trocadéro," color tusche lithograph]

BMA, "New on View," June 19-Oct. 6, 2002.

Jay Fisher, 'New Acquisition: Rivière's Views of the Eiffel Tower on display in New On View,' BMA Today, May/June 2002, p. 7.

Baltimore Museum of Art. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Celebrating a Museum. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2014.

Signed: 3

Inscribed: PAGE FOUR: C: 'LES, TRENTE-SIX VUES DE LA TOUR EIFFEL'; RECTO PAGE FIVE: C: 'LES/ TRENTE-SIX VUES/DE LA /TOUR EIFFEL/PAR/ HENRI RIVIERE/ Prologue d'Arsene Alexandre/ [monogram with iris in circle]/ Imprimerie/ EUGENE VERNEAU/ 108, rue de la Folie Mericourt/ Paris 1888-1902'; VERSO PAGE FIVE: 'Exemplaire no. 52/ [mongram HR] [artist signature] 'Henri Riviere'