Game of Checkers (La partie de dames)

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: 33.4 × 26.4 cm (13 1/8 × 10 3/8 in.)
    sheet: 36.2 × 28.8 cm (14 1/4 × 11 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1950.16.285

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roger-Marx 1948, no. 32, 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.

1953

  • Philadelphia Art Alliance, 1953.

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.

Bibliography

1948

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

Inscriptions

verso, upper left corner, in graphite: 181.6:42

Markings

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

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q65222783

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