Game of Checkers (La partie de dames)
1897/1898 (published 1899)
Medium
color lithograph on China paper
Dimensions
image: 33.3 × 26.7 cm (13 1/8 × 10 1/2 in.) sheet: 35.9 × 28.7 cm (14 1/8 × 11 5/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Burton Tremaine
Accession Number
1971.86.43
About the Artist
Edouard Vuillard · 1868–1940
Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born on November 11, 1868, in Cuiseaux, Saône-et-Loire, France, to a retired naval captain father and seamstress mother, Marie Vuillard. After his father's early death in 1884, the family settled in Paris, where Vuillard attended the Lycée Condorcet, meeting future Nabis members like Ker-Xavier Roussel—later his brother-in-law—and Maurice Denis. He began formal training i...