The Game of Checkers, plate one from Landscapes and Interiors
Medium
Color lithograph on grayish-ivory China paper
Dimensions
Image: 36.9 × 28.5 cm (14 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.); Sheet: 38 × 30.8 cm (15 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22735
Rights
Public Domain
About this artwork
Bright colors and dense patterns provide an intimate glimpse into the artist’s home while figures absorbed in their daily activities suggest an air of distance and mystery. Édouard Vuillard is best known today for his depictions of Parisian interiors, often populated by his friends and family. At the time Landscapes and Interiors was published, however, collectors were not eager to purchase the series, perhaps due to its personal and private subject matter; 20 years after it was produced, the in...
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...