id: 156267
accession number: 1992.109
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The Sea--Studies of Waves: Wave in the Rain, 1890. Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951). Color woodcut; sheet: 34.3 x 50.6 cm (13 1/2 x 19 15/16 in.); image: 22.6 x 34.3 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, John L. Severance Fund 1992.109
title: The Sea--Studies of Waves: Wave in the Rain
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creation date: 1890
creation date earliest: 1890
creation date latest: 1890
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creditline: John L. Severance Fund
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culture: France, late 19th Century
technique: color woodcut
department: Prints
collection: PR - Woodcut
type: Print
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catalogue raisonne: Fields p. 82
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* Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951) - artist
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measurements: Sheet: 34.3 x 50.6 cm (13 1/2 x 19 15/16 in.); Image: 22.6 x 34.3 cm (8 7/8 x 13 1/2 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
title: Selected Acquisitions
opening date: 1993-02-09T05:00:00
Selected Acquisitions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 9-April 11, 1993).
title: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints
opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00
Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001).
title: Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection
opening date: 2003-08-17T00:00:00
Against the Grain: Woodcuts from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 17-November 9, 2003).
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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS
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PROVENANCE
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In the second half of the 19th century, advances in photomechanical processes in France destroyed the commercial viability of using woodcut for illustration and as a reproductive medium. By the 1880s, however, this change encouraged the revival of the woodcut as an autonomous medium of expression. In 1888, the first album of L'Estampe originale (The Original Print) included six woodcuts. For the first time, woodcuts appeared as single-sheet original prints alongside the more artistically respectable media of etching and lithography. In 1858, a trade agreement was signed between France and Japan, and so from the early 1860s, Japanese color woodcuts (ukiyo-e prints) were increasingly available on the commercial market and were exhibited widely. Japanese woodcuts had a tremendous impact on French artists, who emulated their flattened pictorial space, dramatic points of view, strong light-dark contrasts, delicate colors, and surface patterns. The stylized waves in Rivière's Wave in the Rain were inspired by Japanese woodcuts like Ando Hiroshige's View of the Straits of Naruto, but Rivière also closely followed the medium of these prints, indicating in the process an unusual degree of sensitivity to his Japanese models.
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