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Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

Edouard Vuillard

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On View

East Building Ground Level, Gallery 103-C

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on cardboard

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 26.9 x 22.9 cm (10 9/16 x 9 in.)
    framed: 43.1 x 39.3 x 6.9 cm (16 15/16 x 15 1/2 x 2 11/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1970.17.97

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York); (Dudensing sale, American Art Association, New York 24 March 1932, no. 26). Capt. Richard Peto, Isle of Wight; sold 1944 to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Glasgow, and London); by whom sold 1945 to Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.[2]
[1]Acquisition from Peto and sale to Molyneux documented in a letter dated 9 December 1977 from Alex Reid & Lefèvre, in NGA curatorial files.
[2]Provenance according to NGA curatorial records and the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook now in NGA Gallery Archives.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • An Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by the Masters of Post-Impressionism, The City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1931, no. 42, as The Artist's Mother.

1952

  • French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist.

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 178, repro

1989

  • The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Phillips Collection, Washington; The Brooklyn Museum, 1989-1990, no. 67, repro.

Bibliography

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 372, repro.

1978

  • Small French Paintings from the Bequest of Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 106, repro. (continuing exhibition beginning in 1978).

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 432, repro.

2003

  • Salomon, Antoine, and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. 3 vols. Milan and Paris, 2003: 1:no. IV-150, repro., as Madame Vuillard at Table.

Inscriptions

lower left: E Vuillard 94

Wikidata ID

Q20190408

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