On the eve of its 20th anniversary, the Eiffel Tower played a role in this iconic work by the modernist photographer Pierre Dubreuil, entitled Eléphantaisie. Dubreuil's atmospheric photograph focuses on Emmanuel Frémiet's life-size bronze of a young elephant caught in a trap that stood on a pedestal before the Palais du Trocadéro (it is now situated near the entrance to the Musée d'Orsay). Commissioned for the Exposition Universelle of 1878, Frémiet's elephant represented the height of academic realism in the specialized genre of animal sculpture, showing the kind of exquisite detail that led Degas to dismiss the sculptor as pandering to bourgeois taste. Employing a telephoto lens to compress the intervening space, Dubreuil engages Frémiet's and Eiffel's mismatched monuments in a stylistic clash of the titans. Dubreuil's bold juxtaposition shocked viewers when his Eléphantaisie was exhibited in London in 1910, and it continues to resonate a century after its creation.