The Wandering Jew: Old Man Walking by the Sea , 1898. Henri Rivière (French, 1864-1951). Book with 10 color lithographs; overall: x x 1 cm (9 5/8 x 12 11/16 x 3/8 in.). In Paris, Rivière built a shadow theater in the Chat Noir cabaret, a focus for Parisian avant-garde art and entertainment in the 1890s. Silhouettes made of zinc were moved across a screen placed in front of a light source. The plays that Rivière produced for the shadow theater were reproduced as songbook illustrations conceived as layers of silhouettes.

---

Size: 3400px × 2620px
Photo credit: © CMA/BOT / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: