FIGURE 140 Iron lighthouse design by Eiffel and Co., n.d

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TitleIron lighthouse design by Eiffel and Co.

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LocationBibliothèque de l'Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées

SubjectsParis (France)--In artLighthouses in artArchitecture--France--Paris--History--19th century

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Postscript: The Eiffel Tower as Urban Lighthouse

Michelle Foa

Georges Seurat: The Art of Vision

It is the experience of climbing up the Eiffel Tower and viewing the expansive vista around him that the writer François Coppée described with such seeming enthusiasm in the excerpt of the poem quoted above. And it is with a discussion of Seurat’s 1889 painted panel of the Eiffel Tower, the ways that it...

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Michelle Foa

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.197-203

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00057.008

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-18188&redirecttoanchor=32998

Chapter subject tags:Seurat, Georges, 1859-1891Eiffel Tower (Paris, France)Neo-impressionism (Art)--FranceVisual perception--France--History--19th centuryPainting, French--19th century

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Design for a monumental lighthouse for Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameBourdais, Jules

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1881

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsWatercolor, Pencil on tracing paper

Dimensions23 3/4 × 8 3/4 in.

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/projet-de-phare-monumental-pour-paris-elevation-56835

Accession numberRF 37306, Recto, RF 37306

Design for a monumental lighthouse for...

Design for a monumental lighthouse for Paris

Panorama Rotunda in the Place d’Austerlitz, Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1882

Object typeDrawing

LocationBibliothèque nationale de France, Paris

Panorama Rotunda in the Place...

Panorama Rotunda in the Place d’Austerlitz, Paris

View through a Balcony Railing

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1883–1884

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsConté crayon

Dimensions12 3/4 × 9 3/4 in.

View through a Balcony Railing

Photograph of the entrance to the interior basins, looking west, Porten-Bessin

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Photograph of the entrance to the...

Photograph of the entrance to the interior basins, looking west, Porten-Bessin

Eiffel Tower

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1889

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on panel

Dimensions9 1/2 × 6 in. (24.1 × 15.2 cm)

LocationThe Fine Arts Museum of San Franciso

https://art.famsf.org/georges-seurat/eiffel-tower-197948

Accession number1979.48

Eiffel Tower

Photograph of the semaphore of Port-en-Bessin

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1908

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Photograph of the semaphore of...

Photograph of the semaphore of Port-en-Bessin

Aerial view of Port-en-Bessin post-World War II

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Aerial view of Port-en-Bessin post-World...

Aerial view of Port-en-Bessin post-World War II

Photograph of an interior basin looking out toward the jetties, Port-en-Bessin

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsPhotograph

Photograph of an interior basin looking...

Photograph of an interior basin looking out toward the jetties, Port-en-Bessin

Paris, A Rainy Day

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions212.2 × 276.2 cm (83 1/2 × 108 3/4 in.)

LocationArt Institute of Chicago

http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/20684

Accession number1964.336

Paris, A Rainy Day

Excavation of Plateau Beaubourg

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1975

Object typePhotograph

LocationParis

Excavation of Plateau Beaubourg

Gare Saint-Lazare

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameMonet, Claude

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions75.5 × 104 cm

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/la-gare-saint-lazare-10897

Accession numberRF 2775, INV 363

Gare Saint-Lazare

The Paris World's Fair, 1867

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Object typeEngraving

LocationL. Dubech and P. d'Espézel, "Histoire de Paris," 2 vols., 1931, vol. 2, p. 162

The Paris World's Fair, 1867

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre)

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions46 × 32 1/4 in. (117 × 82 cm)

LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/10A2Y1

Accession number2021.67

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme...

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre)

Apartment house project. Details of iron frame. Plan and axonometrics

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameViollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1872

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

LocationEntretiens sur l'architecture, vol. 2, 1872

Apartment house project. Details of iron...

Apartment house project. Details of iron frame. Plan and axonometrics

Panorama of Constantinople by Jules-Arsène Garnier

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameNielson, C.V.

Creator nationality/cultureUnkown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation date1882

Object typePrint

MaterialsWood engraving

LocationThe Royal Library, Copenhagen

Panorama of Constantinople by...

Panorama of Constantinople by Jules-Arsène Garnier

Apartment house with ground-floor shop project. Exterior perspective

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameViollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1872

Object typeArchitecture

LocationEntretiens sur l'architecture, vol. 2, 1872

Apartment house with ground-floor shop...

Apartment house with ground-floor shop project. Exterior perspective

Place Georges Pompidou

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator rolePhotographer

Object typePhotograph

LocationParis

Place Georges Pompidou

Plateau Beaubourg, Paris

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1960–1970

Object typePhotograph

Plateau Beaubourg, Paris

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme à sa fenêtre), detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1876

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationJ. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/10525Y

Accession number2021.67

Young Man at His Window (Jeune homme...

The Man at the Window, detail

House Painter

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleDraftsman

Creation date1883–1884

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsConté crayon on paper

Dimensions12 1/2 × 9 3/4 in. (31.8 × 24.9 cm)

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

House Painter

Centre Pompidou, under construction

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1975

Object typeArchitecture

LocationParis

Centre Pompidou, under construction

Centre Pompidou, drawing

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator roleDraftsman

Object typeDrawing

MaterialsSteel

Centre Pompidou, drawing

Boulevard du Temple, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameDaguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1838

Object typePhotograph

LocationBayerisches Nationalmuseum

Boulevard du Temple, detail

Gustave Eiffel, at center, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1908

Object typePhotograph

Gustave Eiffel, at center, at the foot...

Gustave Eiffel, at center, at the foot of the Eiffel Tower

Members of the Piano & Rogers studio at the excavation of Centre Pompidou

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation date1972

Object typePhotograph

Members of the Piano & Rogers studio...

Members of the Piano & Rogers studio at the excavation of Centre Pompidou

The House Painters

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameCaillebotte, Gustave

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions87 × 116 cm

LocationPrivate collection

The House Painters

Description: Apartment house project. Section, partial elevation, and plan of variant design with...

Apartment house project. Section, partial elevation, and plan of variant design with brick and stone outer wall

Posted by:John Carlson

Oct 06

Creator nameViollet-le-Duc, Eugène Emmanuel

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator roleArchitect

Creation date1872

Object typeMap/Plan/Diagram

LocationEntretiens sur l'architecture, vol. 2, 1872

Apartment house project. Section,...

Apartment house project. Section, partial elevation, and plan of variant design with brick and stone outer wall

Diarama of an Alpine Scene

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameDaguerre, Louis-Jacques-Mandé

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Object typePainting

LocationHarry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Diarama of an Alpine Scene

Gare Saint-Lazare, detail

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 13

Creator nameMonet, Claude

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1877

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationMusée d'Orsay, Paris

https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/oeuvres/la-gare-saint-lazare-10897

Accession numberRF 2775, INV 363

Gare Saint-Lazare, detail

Port-en-Bessin, The Bridge and the Quays

Posted by:John Carlson

Mar 22

Creator nameSeurat, Georges

Creator nationality/cultureFrench

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1888

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

Dimensions26 × 32 3/4 in. (66 × 83.2 cm)

LocationMinneapolis Institute of Arts

https://collections.artsmia.org/art/1272/port-en-bessin-georges-seurat

Accession number55.38

Port-en-Bessin, The Bridge and the Quays

Centre Pompidou, cross-section drawing

Posted by:John Carlson

Sep 22

Creator roleDraftsman

Object typeDrawing

Centre Pompidou, cross-section drawing

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