Vuillard's Room at the Château des Clayes

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

c. 1932

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Édouard Jean Vuillard
Title: Vuillard's Room at the Château des Clayes
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.: 1928–1938
Medium: Distemper on paper, mounted on canvas
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: E. Vuillard
Dimensions: 77.8 × 100.2 cm (30 5/8 × 39 7/16 in.); Framed: 109.3 × 130.9 cm (43 × 51 1/2 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mary and Leigh Block
Reference Number: 1973.337
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Art Institute of Chicago Annual report 1972-73, p. 29, pl. 17.
Émilie Daniel, Vuillard, l’espace de l’intimité, doctorate diss., Paris, Institut d’Art et d’Archéologie, 1984, pp. 417, 419, fig. 148.
Belinda Thomson, Vuillard, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1988, pp. 150, 140, pl. 129.
Ann Dumas, “A la recherche de Vuillard,” Vuillard, Paris, Flammarion, 1990, p. 96 (ill.).
Guy Cogeval, Vuillard. Le temps détourné, Découvertes (ser.) no. 178, Paris, Gallimard and RMN, 1993, p. 103.
Antoine Salomon and Guy Congeval, Edouard Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels vol. 3, Milan, Skira, 2003, no. XII-255.
Stephan Brown, “An Artist, His Patrons, and the Muses”, Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, Exh. cat. The Jewish Museum, 2012, p. 68.

Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, É. Vuillard, May-July 1938, no. 210 (as Aux Clayes. Intérieur avec une cheminée et une table bleue, c. 1935).
Ghent, Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Gentse Verzamelingen, March-May, 1953.
Paris, Musée National d’Art Moderne, L’École de Paris dans les collections belges, July-October 1959, no. 168.
London, Marlborough Fine Art, A Tribute to Paul Maze, the Painter and his Time, May 1967, no. 121.
New York, Marlborough Fine Art, Master of the 20th Century, 1971, no. 85.
New York, The Jewish Museum, Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940. May 4-September 23, 2012.

Émile Laffargue, Paris, c. 1938. Roland Leten, Ghent (Belgium), by 1953 [label on verso]. Marlborough Fine Art Limited, London, 1967. Mary and Leigh Block, Chicago, by 1973. Gift to the Art Institute, 1973.

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