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Madame Arthur Fontaine in a Pink Shawl

A painting in loose brushstrokes of a seated light-skinned woman wearing black viewed in partial profile, mostly from behind. She sits in an upholstered wooden chair beside a small white table, the expanse of a multicolor but largely red rug spread out before and around her.
© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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  • A painting in loose brushstrokes of a seated light-skinned woman wearing black viewed in partial profile, mostly from behind. She sits in an upholstered wooden chair beside a small white table, the expanse of a multicolor but largely red rug spread out before and around her.

Date:

1903

Artist:

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)

About this artwork

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist

Édouard Jean Vuillard

Title

Madame Arthur Fontaine in a Pink Shawl

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.

1904–1905

Medium

Gouache and oil on cardboard mounted on cardboard

Inscriptions

Signed lower right: E. Vuillard

Dimensions

50.2 × 43.8 cm (19 3/4 × 17 1/4 in.); Framed: 69.9 × 63.5 × 11.5 cm (27 1/2 × 25 × 4 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection

Reference Number

1947.118

Copyright

© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

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