East Building Ground Level, Gallery 103-C
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on cardboard
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 54.3 x 53.1 cm (21 3/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
framed: 80 x 78.7 x 8.8 cm (31 1/2 x 31 x 3 7/16 in.) -
Accession Number
1963.10.229
More About this Artwork
Article: Poet Jorie Graham Responds to a Painting by Edouard Vuillard
The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet is inspired by the French painter’s work made “in the lull before history dissolves.”
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Lepoutre, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1929, no. 40, as En famille). Possibly Marcel Kapferer, Paris. Emile Bernheim, Paris; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 June 1930, no. 49, as La collation dans la jardin); purchased by Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Renoir and His Tradition, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 24
1937
Exhibition of French Painting, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1937, no cat.
1938
Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, Art Institute of Chicago, 1938-1939, no. 37
1943
Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951, unnumbered cat., repro.
1952
Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1952, no. 69, repro.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1943
Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia, 1943:, unpaginated, repro.
1952
Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1952 (2nd ed., 1960; rev. ed., 1965): 69, repro.
1960
Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960 (2nd ed.): 71, repro.
1965
Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 92, repro.
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 139.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 126, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 370, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 583, no. 893, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 430, repro.
2003
Salomon, Antoine, and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. 3 vols. Milan and Paris, 2003: 2:no. VII-107, repro., as The Small Family.
Inscriptions
lower left: E Vuillard
Wikidata ID
Q20190622