About this artwork
This spare but finished drawing evocatively depicts a maid with a bib apron (suggested by the bleeding of the ink) pulling back a curtain. It has been identified as a study for Vuillard’ s 1892 submission to the Livre d’ Art, the illustrated periodical published by Paul Fort, founder of Theatre d’ Art, the first forum for symbolist theater. Vuillard creates his image with a brilliant economy of means. A single line evokes the parted curtain-both a literal element of stagecraft and an emblem for theater itself. In addition, the line of the curtain cuts the page and calls attention to the flat surface of the drawing.
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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Prints and Drawings
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Artist
- Édouard Jean Vuillard
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Title
- At the Theatre
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1892
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Medium
- Brush and black ink, with touches of graphite on tan wove paper
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Inscriptions
- Stamped recto, lower right, in black ink: "E.V."
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Dimensions
- 24.8 × 32.6 cm (9 13/16 × 12 7/8 in.)
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Credit Line
- Purchased with funds provided by Anne Searle Meers (Bent)
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Reference Number
- 1987.283
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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