Maurice Prendergast, Bastille Day
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1954.337 · The Cleveland Museum of Art, Open Access (CC0)View original →
Maurice Prendergast

Bastille Day

1892

Current Collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, United States

Medium
color monotype
Dimensions
30.5 × 24.8 cm
Status
In Museum Collection
Collect24 Art ID
C24-192103

Maurice Prendergast began to make monotypes in the early 1890s while living in Paris, where he was influenced by Edgar Degas's use of the technique. Prendergast focused on scenes from daily life, such as this depiction of crowds filling the streets of the French capital on the country's national holiday. He used layers of blue and black ink to evoke the shadowy tones of nighttime and orbs of bright pink to suggest the artificial light of lanterns illuminating the boulevards.

Provenance

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1954.337

Registry history

  • 1892 — Recorded in the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art — prints

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