Two Sisters-in-Law (Les deux belles-soeurs)

1897/1898 (published 1899)

Ambroise Vollard

Artist, French, 1867 - 1939

Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

Edouard Vuillard

Printer, French, 1868 - 1940

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on China paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 35.3 × 28.2 cm (13 7/8 × 11 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 36.9 × 30.1 cm (14 1/2 × 11 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.16.268

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roger-Marx 1948, no. 43, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1950.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1950

  • Vollard, Connoisseur: Modern French Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1950 – 1951, no cat.

1953

  • Nineteenth-Century Prints by French Painter-Printmakers from the Rosenwald Collection, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1953.

1955

  • Modern French Colored Lithographs from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1955.

1963

  • Renoir to Picasso 1914, Lowe Gallery of the University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, 1963, no. 79.

  • Modern Prints and Illustrated Books from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1963.

1964

  • The Turn of the Century, Kresge Art Center at Michigan State University, East Lansing, 1964, no. 13.

1970

  • Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth Century French Prints from the Rosenwald Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1970.

1972

  • Lithography in the 19th Century: Selections from the National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1972 – 1973.

1977

  • Prints of Paris: The 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1977, no cat.

1983

  • Graphic Survey Show, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., May 1983.

2000

  • Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001, no. 69, as Les deux belles-soeurs (Two Sisters-in-Law), from Paysages et intérieurs.

Bibliography

1948

  • Roger-Marx, Claude. L'Oeuvre grave de Vuillard. Monte Carlo: Andre Sauret, 1948.

2000

  • Prints Abound: Paris in the 1890s. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2000-2001: no. 69.

Inscriptions

none

Markings

verso, stamped in black ink: National Gallery of Art, Rosenwald Collection (Lugt 1932d)

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65222763

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