The Dressing Room, Madame Hessel Reading at Amfreville

Painting and Sculpture of Europe

1906

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)

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

Artist: Édouard Jean Vuillard
Title: The Dressing Room, Madame Hessel Reading at Amfreville
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.: 1901–1911
Medium: Oil and tempera on cardboard
Inscriptions: Signed lower right: E Vuillard
Dimensions: 49.5 × 63.2 cm (19 1/2 × 24 3/4 in.)
Credit Line: Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection
Reference Number: 1947.119
Copyright: © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 478.
El Mundo de los Museos, Instituto de Arte de Chicago (Madrid: 1967), pp. 12, 62 (ill.).
Antoine Salomon and Guy Congeval, Edouard Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels vol. 2 (Milan, 2003), no. VIII-148 (ill.).
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. 52.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, December 15, 1938-January 15, 1939, no. 33.
Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, Paintings by Edouard Vuillard, January 22-February 22, 1939, no. 16.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6-March 26, 1941.
New York, The Jewish Museum, Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940. May 4- September 23, 2012.

Purchased from the artist by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (stock no. 15701, as Le Cabinet de toilette), 18 Feb. 1907, 550 francs. Alexandre Natanson, Paris, 10 May 1907, 550 francs. Jos Hessel, Paris and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, (stock no. 20145, as Portrait de Mme Hessel), 13 Jan. 1914, 2,000 francs. Thomas Justice & Sons, Dundee (Great Britain), 13 Oct. 1919, part of a lot. Alexander Duncan, Carnoustie (Great Britain). Arthur Tooth & Sons, London. Knoedler, New York, 1927. C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Worcester, Chicago, 30 Apr. 1938. Gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.

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