# Bastille Day

**Maurice Prendergast** (American, born Newfoundland \[now Canada\], 1858–1924)  
1892  
color monotype  
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.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1954.337. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1954.337).

## About this work

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.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Maurice Prendergast made this in 1892, aged 34. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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American, born Newfoundland \[now Canada\], 1858–1924

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: America
- The artist was 34
- Real size: about 7 × 5 in (17 × 13 cm). The original is small: even the 8 × 10 in print shows it larger than life.
- Century: 19th century
- Colour: grey
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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