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Edo around 1830, and Paris in 1902: an old master's mountain, and a young Parisian collector of Japanese prints who gave a new iron tower the same treatment.

Sources: Wikipedia: Henri RivièreWikipedia: Hokusai

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Edo, around 1830. Hokusai, past seventy after a lifetime of making pictures, answered a boom in travel across Japan with a set of landscape prints.

Source: Wikipedia

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Henri Rivière ran the shadow theatre at the Chat Noir cabaret in Montmartre. In 1888 he began collecting Japanese prints, and he started drawing the iron tower going up on the Champ de Mars.

Sources: Wikipedia: Henri RivièreWikipedia: Le Chat Noir

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