Across Country (A travers champs)

1897/1898 (published 1899)

Edouard Vuillard

Associated Names
Ambroise Vollard

Artist, French, 1866 - 1939

Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

Edouard Vuillard

Printer, French, 1868 - 1940

The image shows a field with small figures, a line of distant trees, and the sky. The brushstrokes are delicate and pointillistic, creating a soft texture. The color palette includes muted greens, bright blue for the sky, and pops of pink and purple on the figures.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on China paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 25.9 × 34.3 cm (10 3/16 × 13 1/2 in.)
    sheet: 27.3 × 36.3 cm (10 3/4 × 14 5/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1950.16.265

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roger-Marx 1948, no. 34, 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, National Gallery of Art, 1950 – 1951.

1954

  • Lithographs by Bonnard, Vuillard, and Maurice Denis, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1954.

1955

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

1958

  • Inaugural Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City, 1958 – 1959.

1985

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

1995

  • Prints by James McNeill Whistler and His Contemporaries, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1995, as Across Country.

Bibliography

1948

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

Inscriptions

verso, upper right corner, in graphite: 181.4.42; verso, upper right corner, in graphite: 11

Markings

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

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65222759

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