Place Vintimille by Edouard Vuillard


Edouard Manet, Portrait of Emile Zola, 1868, oil on canvas, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, © Réunion des Musées Nationaux, photograph by Hervé Lewandowski		James Jacques Joseph Tissot, Hide and Seek, c. 1877, oil on wood, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Fund 1978.47.1

During the time that decorative screens enjoyed a resurgence, most middle- and upper-class families owned at least one. Artists also owned screens and included them in their work: in Edouard Manet's famous portrait of his friend Émile Zola, one panel of an oriental screen is visible at the left edge. On the wall behind Zola, next to Manet's Olympia, is a Japanese print. In Tissot's cluttered Victorian studio, a girl peers over the top of a folding screen as she plays hide and seek.

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