Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower: From the Grenelle Bridge
Medium
color lithograph
Dimensions
image: 17 × 21.2 cm · sheet: 22.3 × 26.7 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of John Bonebrake
Accession Number
2003.391
Tags
male
About this artwork
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 w...