About This Artwork

Edouard Vuillard
French, 1868-1940

Still Life, Hydrangeas, 1905

Oil on cardboard
28 3/4 x 24 1/2 in. (76 x 62.4 cm)
Signed and dated, l.l.: "E Vuillard 1905"
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Morton, 1959.4

© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

“Mrs. Morton’s Bequest,” Calendar of The Art Institute of Chicago, LXIV, no. 1 (January 1970), pp. 4-5 (ill.).

Richard R. Brettel, Post-Impressionists (Chicago and New York, 1987).

The Art Institute of Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago, 1996), p. 14 (ill.).

Antoine Salomon and Guy Congeval, Edouard Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels vol. 2 (Milan, 2003), no. VII-497 (ill.).

Ownership History

Justin K. Thannhauser Gallery, New York, by November 3, 1958 [letter from K. Kuh, November 3, 1958 in curatorial file]. Sold, to Mr. and Mrs. Sterling Morton, Chicago, December 1958 [letter of December 20, 1958 in curatorial file]. Given to Art Institute, 1959.