The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

Bastille Day

Bastille Day

1892
(American, 1858–1924)
Image: 17.4 x 13.1 cm (6 7/8 x 5 3/16 in.); Platemark: 25.5 x 20 cm (10 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 30.5 x 24.8 cm (12 x 9 3/4 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This print is one of the few works that can be dated to Maurice Prendergast's early years in Paris.

Description

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.
  • ?-1954
    (Peter H. Deitsch, New York, NY, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH)
    1954
    Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
    1954-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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  • {{cite web|title=Bastille Day|url=false|author=Maurice Prendergast|year=1892|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1954.337