Game of Checkers (La partie de dames)

1897/1898 (published 1899)

Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on china paper mounted on tan wove paper, graphite tick marks drawn on mounting paper and paint indicate a later mounting

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.7 × 26.5 cm (13 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.7 × 28.2 cm (14 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
    mount: 37.6 × 30.6 cm (14 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1980.45.1474

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roger-Marx 1948, no. 32, State iii/iii

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

Bibliography

1948

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

Inscriptions

lower center on image in graphite: EVuillard

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q74031898

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