Game of Checkers (La partie de dames)

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

This is a painting of an interior scene with figures playing a checkers or chess game. The setting is cozy with warm colors like burgundy, olive green, and beige. The room has intricate swirling wallpaper. The brushwork is soft and slightly blurred, reminiscent of the style of Édouard Vuillard.

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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 Number

    1950.16.285

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

  • Series Title

    Paysages et intérieurs: pl. 1 [Roger-Marx 31-43]

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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