Édouard Vuillard born at Cuiseaux, Sâone-et-Loire, the son of a retired army officer. The family moved to Paris in 1877 and Vuillard became a student at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in 1886, later moving to the Académie Julian. There he met Bonnard and other painters with whom he founded the Nabis in 1889 (the name derived from the Hebrew for prophet). The group, influenced by Gauguin and Degas, concentrated on pattern and distortion to emphasise psychological meanings beyond appearances in ordinary domestic subjects, though Bonnard and Vuillard executed from 1892 to 1937 large decorative schemes, including stage scenery. He was elected to the Institute in 1938. The National Gallery, London
This is part 2 of a 6-part series on the work of Édouard Vuillard:
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| c1893 Sewing oil on paper laid down on board 24.8 x 21 cm |
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| c1893 Interior with a Screen lithograph 25.1 x 30.8 cm (composition) |
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| c1893 Grandmother’s Bed pastel on paper 28.4 x 25.3 cm |
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| 1893 Two Seamstresses in the Workroom oil on millboard 13.3 x 19.4 cm National Galleries of Scotland: Modern |
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| 1893 The Green Lamp oil on board 21 x 26 cm |
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| 1893 The Chat oil on canvas 32.4 x 41.3 cm National Galleries of Scotland: Modern |
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| 1894 Programme for The Silent Life 32.1 x 24.3 cm Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, Paris |
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| 1894 Programme for Lisez La Revue Blanche and Une Nuit d’Avril a Ceos |
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| 1894 Programme for Solness Le Constructeur lithograph 32.2 x 24 cm Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, Paris |
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| 1894 Programme for Au dessus des forces humaines two lithographs on one sheet 32.7 x 47.8 cm (sheet) |
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| 1894 Programme for Lisez La Revue blanche and Frères, La Gardienne, Carmeéanciers published by Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, Paris |
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| 1894 Coquelin Cadet in Character gouache, with touches of brush and black ink, over traces of graphite, on white wove paper 20.7 x 13.5 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1894 The Window oil on canvas 37.9 x 45.5 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1894 The Dressmaker lithograph printed in two colours on wove paper 24.8 x 16.3 cm © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, UK |
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| c1894 The Dressmaker lithograph 26 x 18 cm The Schorr Collection, London |
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| c1894 The Dressmaker colour lithograph, printed in blue and yellow-ochre ink 24.8 x 16.2 cm |
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| c1894 Bécane (bicycles) lithograph 81.1 x 59.7 cm (sheet) MoMA, New York |
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| 1895 The Broom in the Courtyard, 346 rue Saint-Honoré oil on board 22.5 x 20.9 cm |
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| 1895 Read “La Revue Blanche” Transformed – Beyond Human Power lithograph in black with scraping on stone on tan wove paper 32.7 x 48.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1895 Read “La Revue Blanche” Transformed – Beyond Human Power lithographs in black with scraping on stone on tan wove paper 32.7 x 48.2 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1895 Madame Vuillard under the green hanging lamp oil on cardboard mounted on canvas 26.6 x 21.5 cm |
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| 1895 The dressing table oil on canvas 65.6 x 115 cm |
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| 1895 Woman Sweeping at 346 rue Saint-Honoré oil on board 35.6 x 52.7 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1895 Two Friends oil on board 30.5 x 39.5 cm |
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| 1895 The Tuileries colour lithograph on ivory wove paper 24.3 x 28 cm (image) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1895 The patient reading oil on board 21.4 x 29.2 cm |
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| c1895 Woman reading oil on board 35 x 32 cm |
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| c1895 The Studio lithograph on tan wove China paper 24.5 x 30 cm (image) Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| c1895 The recommendation oil on card laid down on canvas 27.3 x 30.8 cm |
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| c1895 Evening effect pastel on paper 31.6 x 30.8 cm |
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| 1895-05 Child Playing: Annette Roussel in front of a wooden chair oil on cardboard 43.8 x 57.8 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
1895-96 Embroidery
This work depicts three female figures—two of whom are barely discernible—quietly concentrating on their handiwork amid a profusion of fabrics and yarns. The diffused surface of the painting merges every detail of this muffled setting, creating a tapestry-like effect. Vuillard’s nuanced manipulation of color and texture was internalized from observation of his mother and sister, who ran a small dressmaking business out of the family apartment.
MoMA
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| 1895-96 Embroidery oil on canvas 177.7 x 65.6 cm |
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| c1896 At the Piano oil on board 21.7 x 26 cm |
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| c1896-1901 At the Revue Blanche (Portrait of Félix Fénéon) oil on paperboard 46.4 x 57.5 cm Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
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| 1896 The Woman in the Armchair (Misia and Thadée Natanson) oil on paper laid down on canvas 92.5 x 74.5 cm |
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| 1896 Programme for The Pillars of Society lithograph 32 x 49.9 cm published by Théâtre de l’Oeuvre, Paris MoMA, New York |
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| 1896 Misia in a black and yellow dressing gown oil on board 32.2 x 15.3 cm |
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| 1897 Vallotton at the Natanson’s oil on cardboard 37.5 x 27.9 cm |
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| 1897 The Manicure oil on board 33.5 x 30 cm Southampton City Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1897 The attic of La Grangette in Valvins oil on board laid down on cradled panel 45.8 x 65.7 cm |
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| 1897 Programme for Au-dela des Forces lithograph 23 x 31.8 cm MoMA, New York |
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| 1897 Portrait of Thadée Natanson oil on board laid down on cradled pane 39.3 x 32.9 cm |
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| c1897-99 Open-air theatre (the bandstand) distemper on paper laid down on canvas 60.7 x 50 cm |
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| 1897-99 Young woman at the window, and flower oil on board 22.9 x 22.2 cm |
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| 1897-99 Self-Portrait at Villeneuve-sur-Yonne oil on board 26.8 x 29 cm |
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| 1897-99 Beneath the Trees oil on cardboard mounted on canvas 53 x 67 cm Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid |
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| 1898 The Grandmother oil on board laid down on cradled panel 33.8 x 35.6 cm |
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| 1898 Sleeping baby oil on board 37.5 x 33.4 cm |
| c1898-1900 The first-class compartment spirit-based paint on cardboard laid down on panel 34.6 x 55.2 cm |