Félix Edouard Vallotton
French (born Switzerland),1865-1925

Madame Vallotton and her Niece, Germaine Aghion, 1899

Oil on artist's board
19 3/8 x 20 3/8 in. (49.2 x 51.3 cm)
Inscribed lower right: F. Vallotton
Bequest of Mrs. Clive Runnells, 1977.606

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Tokyo, Seibu Museum, The Impressionist Tradition, Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18–December 1, 1985; traveled to Kyoto, Fukuoka Art Museum, January 5–February 2, 1986; Kyoto, Municipal Museum of Art, March 4–April 13, 1986, cat. 65.

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, Felix Vallotton, January 5, 1992; traveled to Houston, Museum of Fine Arts, January 31–March 29, 1992; Indianapolis, Museum of Art, April 25–June 11, 1992, p. 33, (ill.) p. 35.

Paris, Musée d’Orsay, The Nabis, 1888–1900, March 12, 1993; traveled to Zurich, Kunsthaus, May 29–August 16, 1993; Paris, Grand Palais, September 22, 1993–January 4, 1994, cat. no. 136.

Dallas Museum of Art "Degas to Picasso: The Sculptor, The Painter and the Camera" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art October 1, 1999-January 4, 2000; Dallas Museum of Art February February 1, 2000-May 7, 2000, Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao June 12, 2000-September 10, 2000

Publication History

Isabelle de la Brunière and Phillippe Grapeloup-Roche, “Vallotton and the Camera: Art and the Science of Photography,” Apollo (June 1994), pp. 18–23, 19 (ill.).

R. Brettell, Post-Impressionists, Art Institute of Chicago and Harry N. Ambrams (New York, 1987), pp. 85–86, 87 (color ill.).

Mariana Ducrey, Félix Vallotton, 1865–1925, L’Oeuvre Peint vol. II (Lausanne, 2005) no. 267.

Ownership History

Mrs. Clive Runnells (died 1977); bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1977.