Henri Rivière

Artist

Henri Rivière (1864–1951) was born in Paris and in the 1880s became a central figure at the cabaret Le Chat Noir in Montmartre, where he created a famous shadow theatre with cut-out zinc figures projected against coloured backdrops. Deeply influenced by Japanese woodblock prints, which he collected, he made colour woodcuts of Brittany, where he spent his summers, and went on to colour lithographs for the general public. His series Thirty-six Views of the Eiffel Tower (1902) is a direct homage to Hokusai's views of Mount Fuji. He also designed theatre sets. We print his colour lithograph Parisian Landscapes: The Fortifications (1900), from the Cleveland Museum of Art, part of his series of views of Paris.

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