The Avenue
Édouard Jean Vuillard
printed 1899
Medium
Color lithograph with pastel and gouache on grayish-ivory China paper, pieced and secured with straight pins
Dimensions
32.5 × 42 cm (12 13/16 × 16 9/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
6061
About the Artist
Édouard Jean Vuillard · 1868–1940
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter and printmaker whose intimate, pattern-saturated domestic interiors place him among the most distinctive voices of the Post-Impressionist era. Born in Cuiseaux and raised in Paris, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, where he formed friendships with Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and other young painters who would coales...