Still Life with Jug and Knife

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1888/89

Édouard Vuillard
French, 1868–1940

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Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Édouard Jean Vuillard
Title: Still Life with Jug and Knife
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower left: E. Vuillard
Dimensions: 30.5 × 39.4 cm (12 × 15 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1988.263
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Gloria Groom, Édouard Vuillard Painter-Decorator. Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, (New Haven and London, Yale University Press), 1993, p. 6, fig. 5.
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. 1 (Milan: Skira; Paris Wildenstein Institute, 2003), cat. I-14 (color ill.), as Pewter Jug and Vegetables.

Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, “Oeuvres remarkables de Vuillard,” April 25–May 14, 1947.

Sold from the artist’s estate to Alfred Daber in 1941. M. Lambert, Paris, by 1947. Jacques Dubourg, Paris, by 1971. E.V. Thaw Gallery, New York, c. 1979 [preceeding provenance according to Mathias Chivot of the Vuillard Catalogue Raisonné, letter dated October 16, 2001 in object file] ; traded to Stephan Hahn [according to Leslie Chang of E.V. Thaw & Co, letter dated June 27, 2002 in object file]; sold by Hahn to Mary and Leigh Block by 1988; given to the Art Institute, 1988.

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