Thirty-Six Views of the Eiffel Tower: From Behind Frémiet's Elk (Trocadero)
1902
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
1902
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
This print shows the Eiffel Tower from behind, with the Trocadéro gardens in the foreground. A plaster elk statue twists under a snake’s coils near a water basin. The sculptor studied live animals in Paris’s botanical gardens. Rivière made 36 tiny prints like this, all from the same tower but in different seasons and lights. He used a method called *photolithography*, printing from photos instead of carving stone. If you like this view, look up another of Rivière’s tower prints at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
