Place Vintimille
Edouard Vuillard
1911
Medium
five-panel screen, distemper on paper laid down on canvas
Dimensions
overall (each of five panels): 230 x 60 cm (90 9/16 x 23 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Enid A. Haupt
Accession Number
1998.47.1-5
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...