Repast in a Garden

1898

Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

Edouard Vuillard

Attributed to

Two people, perhaps a woman and man, and a baby sit at a table in a courtyard surrounded by vine-covered walls in this square painting. The scene is loosely painted with visible dabs, dashes, or smudges. The table is to the left of center. The man sits on the far side, to our left, and the woman, who appears to have her brown hair pulled up, sits facing away from us wearing a smoke-gray garment. A child wearing pink and pale blue sits to our right of the woman and seems to raise both arms. The ground is dotted with cream white and fog gray against the brown board on which this was painted. Steps lead up to a building at the back of the courtyard to the left, and the vine-covered wall stretches across the right two-thirds of the background. The artist signed the lower left corner, “E Vuilllard.”

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On View

East Building Ground Level, Gallery 103-C

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on cardboard

  • Credit Line

    Chester Dale Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 54.3 x 53.1 cm (21 3/8 x 20 7/8 in.)
    framed: 80 x 78.7 x 8.8 cm (31 1/2 x 31 x 3 7/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1963.10.229

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Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lepoutre, Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 12 June 1929, no. 40, as En famille). Possibly Marcel Kapferer, Paris. Emile Bernheim, Paris; (sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 14 June 1930, no. 49, as La collation dans la jardin); purchased by Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1931

  • Renoir and His Tradition, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 24

1937

  • Exhibition of French Painting, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1937, no cat.

1938

  • Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Pierre Bonnard and Édouard Vuillard, Art Institute of Chicago, 1938-1939, no. 37

1943

  • Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1943-1951, unnumbered cat., repro.

1952

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1952, no. 69, repro.

1965

  • The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1943

  • Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. Philadelphia, 1943:, unpaginated, repro.

1952

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art. Washington, 1952 (2nd ed., 1960; rev. ed., 1965): 69, repro.

1960

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1960 (2nd ed.): 71, repro.

1965

  • Twentieth Century French Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965 (rev. ed.): 92, repro.

  • Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 139.

1968

  • National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 126, repro.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 370, repro.

1984

  • Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 583, no. 893, color repro.

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 430, repro.

2003

  • Salomon, Antoine, and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. 3 vols. Milan and Paris, 2003: 2:no. VII-107, repro., as The Small Family.

Inscriptions

lower left: E Vuillard

Wikidata ID

Q20190622

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