Edouard Vuillard
French, 1868-1940

Annette Roussel with a Broken Chair, c. 1900

Oil on cardboard
17 1/4 x 22 3/4 in. (43.8 x 57.8 cm)
Inscribed at upper right: E. Vuillard
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1180

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Brussels, La Libre Esthetique, 1901, cat. 525.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Twenty-Eighth International Exhibition of Painting, October–December 1929, cat. 144.

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Living Artists, November 1931-March 1932, no cat.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 718 (ill.).

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 288.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, December 15, 1938-January 15, 1939, cat. 36.

Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, Paintings by Edouard Vuillard, January 22-February 22, 1939, cat. 8.

Boston, Institute of Modern Art, La Vie Français, October 6-November 11, 1944.

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bonnard-Vuillard, January 26-March 14, 1954, p. 74 (ill), traveled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, April 6-June 6, 1954.

Paris, France, Galeries du Jeu de Paume et de l’Orangerie, Edouard Vuillard-K. X. Roussel, May 28-October 30, 1968, cat. 101, traveled to Munich, Haus der Kunst, March 15-May 12, 1968, cat. 57.

Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vuillard, September 10-October 24, 1971, no cat. no., pl. 10, traveled to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, November 18, 1971-January 2, 1972 and The Art Institute of Chicago, Vuillard, January 29-March 13, 1972.

Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, November 18- April 28, 1989, cat. 71 (ill.), traveled to Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, February 17-April 29, 1990 and Brooklyn Museum of Art, May 18-July 30, 1990.

Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January 19-April 20, 2003, cat. 159 (ill.), traveled to Montreal, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Montreal, May 15, 2003-August 24, 2003 and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 23, 2003-January 4, 2004 and Lodnon, Royal Academy of Arts, January 31-April 18, 2004.

Publication History

Colour 5 (November 1916), p. 119.

Pennsylvania Museum of Art Bulletin 2 (January 1932), p. 73.

“The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (December 1933), p. 117 (ill).

Andrew C. Ritchie, Edouard Vuillard (New York, 1954), pp. 102, 74 (ill).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 478.

Jacques Salomon, Vuillard (Paris, 1968), p. 92 (ill).

John Russell, Vuillard (Greenwich, 1971), pl. 10.

Richard Brettell, Post-Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 86, 88 (ill.), 119.

Elizabeth Easton, The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard (Washington, 1989), p. 96, pl. 71.

Anotoine Salomon and Guy Congeval, Edouard Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels vol. 2 (Milan, 2003), no. VII-123 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought from the artist by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris for 500 francs on November 29, 1900 [see inscription on reverse and Bernheim-Jeune stock no. 11140, this and the following information according to Salomon and Congeval 2003]; sold to Georges Feydeau, Paris for 1,000 francs on May 13, 1901. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, c. 1902 [stock no. 12307, see inscription on reverse]. Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, April 20, 1906 [stock no. 14935, see label on reverse]. Baron Bruno Caccamisi, Paris. Mme Blanche Marchesi, Paris. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris by 1924; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1924 [see receipt no. 1754, Registrar office, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.