Game of Checkers (La partie de dames)

1897/1898 (published 1899)

Edouard Vuillard

Associated Names
Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

This is a painting of an interior scene featuring three figures around a table. The artwork depicts a seated individual engaged in a game or activity with another seated figure, while a third figure stands and observes. The setting is richly detailed, with an ornate patterned wallpaper in a golden hue providing a backdrop for the scene. The figures are rendered in a stylized manner using a limited palette dominated by shades of burgundy, teal, and ochre. Seating elements feature floral patterns that match the aesthetic of the period depicted. This is in the style of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, characterized by bold outlines and a focus on interactions in intimate settings.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color lithograph on china paper mounted on tan wove paper, graphite tick marks drawn on mounting paper and paint indicate a later mounting

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    image: 33.7 × 26.5 cm (13 1/4 × 10 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.7 × 28.2 cm (14 1/16 × 11 1/8 in.)
    mount: 37.6 × 30.6 cm (14 13/16 × 12 1/16 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1980.45.1474

  • Catalogue Raisonné

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

  • Series Title

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

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia; gift to National Gallery of Art, 1980.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1985

  • Figure Prints from the National Gallery's Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1985-1986, no cat.

Bibliography

1948

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

Inscriptions

lower center on image in graphite: EVuillard

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q74031898

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