Woman in Bed

Edouard Vuillard

Associated Names
Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

This is a painting of a person lying on a bed covered with patterned blankets, their head resting on a pillow. The person's head is near the top left corner, and the bed stretches to the bottom right corner. The person has white skin and black hair, and they are draped in striped, green fabric, either clothes or an inner blanket. On top of that is a cream-colored blanket, and on top of that is a brown blanket with abstract cream patterns across it. The blankets cover the person's entire body, except for the upper half of their face. The bed is painted in simple black lines against the off-white background.
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Artwork overview

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Captain Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952; acquired 1955 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969]; bequest 1970 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist.

1956

  • Hampton National Historic Site, Towson, MD, May - October 1956

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 245, repro.

Bibliography

1961

  • French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961: 67.

1991

  • Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: fig. 88, p. 78.

1993

  • Nabis 1888-1900. Exh. cat. Kunsthaus, Zurich, and Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 1993-1994: 310, fig. 146.1.

2012

  • Grasselli, Margaret Morgan, and Andrew Robison. Color, Line, Light: French Drawings, Watercolors, and Pastels from Delacroix to Signac. Exh. cat. Musée des impressionnismes Giverny and National Gallery of Art. Washington, 2012: 101, fig. 6 (color).

Inscriptions

lower left: ev; in unknown hand, a on verso in graphite: d V toile gorge creme / 4966 / avec cartel / Vuillard

Wikidata ID

Q64556976

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