Garden Seen From Above

Prints and Drawings

c. 1900

Edouard Jean Vuillard
French, 1868-1940

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Édouard Jean Vuillard
Title: Garden Seen From Above
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.: Made 1895–1905
Medium: Oil on tan cardboard
Inscriptions: Signed recto, upper left, in brush and black oil paint: "E. Vuillard"
Dimensions: 30.7 × 51.5 cm (12 1/8 × 20 5/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1042
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

Guy Cogeval and Antoine Saloman, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Painting and Pastels, vol. 2 (Milan: Skira/Wildenstein Institute, 2003), p. 594, no. VII-105.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 139, cat. 98 (ill.).

Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, “Oeuvres de Bonnard, …Vuillard,” Apr. 2–22, 1900.
Kumamoto Museum of Art, “Vuillard,” Nov. 18–Dec. 4, 1977, cat. 23; also the Ohita Museum of Art, Dec. 10, 1977–Jan. 8, 1978, and the Shimonoseki-Daimaru, Jan. 12–24, 1978.
Lausanne, Paul Vallotton, “Un ensemble d’huiles de maîtres suisses et français du XIXe et XXe siècle,” Dec. 6, 1979–Jan. 16, 1980.
London, J. P. L. Fine Arts, “Bonnard, Roussel, Vuillard,” Spring 1981.
London, J. P. L. Fine Arts, “Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940): Paintings, Pastels, and Drawings,” Jan. 30-Apr. 4, 1985, cat. 5.
Salzburg, Galerie Salis, “Bonnard, Vuillard,” July 24–Sept. 15, 1985, cat. 22.
London, J. P. L. Fine Arts, “Private View: A Selection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings, Watercolours, Pastels, and Paintings, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century French Sculpture,” Nov. 23, 1988-Jan. 27, 1989, cat. 39.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 139, cat. 98 (ill.).

Galerie Druet, Paris. Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, by Dec. 1979. J. P. L. Fine Art, London, by 1981. Sold, Christie’s, London, Nov. 27, 1989, lot 20, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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