On the Bateau-Mouche

1902
(French, 1864–1951)
Image: 17 x 21 cm (6 11/16 x 8 1/4 in.); Sheet: 22.3 x 26.8 cm (8 3/4 x 10 9/16 in.)
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Catalogue raisonné: Fields, p. 77
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Location: not on view

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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. Here, a laundress appears in a scene dominated by the tower, as she rides with her basket on a bateau-mouche, or water taxi.
On the Bateau-Mouche

On the Bateau-Mouche

1902

Henri Rivière

(French, 1864–1951)
France, 20th century

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