La Vie muette

1894

Edouard Vuillard

Artist, French, 1868 - 1940

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    lithograph in green-black on wove paper

  • Credit Line

    Gift of The Atlas Foundation

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 32.9 x 25.1 cm (12 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1995.76.104

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Roger-Marx 1948, no. 20, State only

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Rodolphe Darzens, Paris; Mr. and Mrs. Martin Atlas, Washington, D.C.; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1998

  • Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Academy Museum, New York, 1998-1999, no. 43, as La Vie muette (The Silent Life) by Maurice Beaubourg.

Bibliography

1948

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

1992

  • Aitken, Geneviève. Artistes et Théâtres d'Avant-Garde: Programmes de Théâtre Illustrés, Paris 1890-1900. Exh. cat. Pont-Aven, Musée de Pont-Aven and tour, 1992, 63, no. 67.

1998

  • Artists and the Avant-Garde Theater in Paris, 1887-1900. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; National Academy Museum, New York, 1998-1999: no. 43.

Inscriptions

lower left in stone: EV; across top in stone: LA VIE MUETTE / drame en 4 actes / de / Maurice Beaubourg / L'oeuvre / administration 23 rue Turgot

Wikidata ID

Q75395924

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