About this artwork
Lush vegetation dominates this view from a window of Edouard Vuillard’s summer residence outside Paris, with the sturdy trunk of an oak tree bisecting the scene. Instead of oil paint Vuillard used distemper, a mix of dry pigment and melted glue. With this medium he created a textured surface with myriad nuanced colors to evoke a tapestry-like wall decoration.
Vuillard belonged to the generation of artists after the Impressionists, known broadly as Post-Impressionists. Impressionism’s continued influence can be seen here in the loose brushstrokes, the use of color to evoke light and atmosphere, and the subject of women and children in a garden.
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Status
- On View, Gallery 244
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Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
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Artist
- Édouard Jean Vuillard
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Title
- Foliage—Oak Tree and Fruit Seller
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Place
- France (Artist's nationality:)
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Date
- 1918
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Medium
- Distemper on canvas
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Inscriptions
- Signed lower right: E Vuillard
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Dimensions
- 193 × 283.2 cm (76 × 111 1/2 in.); Framed: 205.8 × 294.7 cm (81 × 116 in.)
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Credit Line
- A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
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Reference Number
- 1999.373
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Copyright
- © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
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