Landscape of the Ile-de-France

c. 1894

Edouard Vuillard

Associated Names
Edouard Vuillard

Painter, French, 1868 - 1940

This painting shows a landscape seen from an elevated view. Fields dotted with small trees line a hill that reaches up towards the horizon, below a blue sky full of white, puffy clouds. The fields on the hill are different shades of green and brown, with some rectangles painted in bright yellow. Closer to us, at the base of the hill, a brown shape on the left suggests a structure. There is also a gray shape in the bottom right corner, topped with a line of bright orange. Thick, swirling brushstrokes create texture in the fields and clouds.

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on cardboard

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 19.7 x 25.3 cm (7 3/4 x 9 15/16 in.)
    framed: 34 x 39.7 x 4.4 cm (13 3/8 x 15 5/8 x 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1995.47.14

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Purchased from the family of the artist by (Sam Salz, New York); sold April 1959 to Mr. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift 1995 to NGA.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 177, repro.

2003

  • Edouard Vuillard, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Royal Academy of Arts, London, 2003-2004, not in cat. (shown only in Washington).

2013

  • Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016, pl. 56.

Bibliography

2003

  • Salomon, Antoine, and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. 3 vols. Milan and Paris, 2003: 1:no. VI-86, repro., as Landscape, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.

Inscriptions

lower left: E Vuillard

Wikidata ID

Q20190425

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