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Art Inquiry: Place Vintimille
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Edouard Vuillard, Place Vintimille (1911)
Vuillard lived across the street from this park in Paris, France, and painted it many times from his fifth-floor window.

Learn more about this work of art by answering the multiple-choice questions below. Mouse over the image for clues!

1. This park is located in a large French city, famous for the Eiffel Tower. The city is          .

  1. London
  2. Paris
  3. Rome
  4. New York

2. Where do you think the artist was sitting when he painted this scene?

  1. On a bench in the park
  2. In a birch tree across the street
  3. At a fifth-floor window across the street
  4. In a hot air balloon

3. What color is the sky?

  1. Blue
  2. Pink
  3. Green
  4. None of the above

4. What season is it in the park?

  1. Fall
  2. Winter
  3. Spring
  4. Summer

5. What are people doing in the park?

  1. Fixing bicycles
  2. Sitting and relaxing
  3. Reading the paper
  4. All of the above

6. What are the four vertical lines that are spaced evenly throughout the painting?

  1. Cracks in the paint
  2. The edges of the window that the artist looked through
  3. The edges of the five panels that make up this painting
  4. Decoration
 
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Edouard Vuillard, Place Vintimille, 1911, five-panel screen, distemper on paper laid down on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Gift of Enid A. Haupt