ÉDOUARD VUILLARD, (1868-1940)
La Salle du Moyen ge dans le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (première étude)
La Salle du Moyen ge dans le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (première étude)
stamped with the artist's signature 'E Vuillard' (lower right)
distemper, pastel and charcoal on buff paper laid on canvas
98 x 114.5cm (38 9/16 x 45 1/16in).
Executed in 1922
Provenance
The artist's studio.
Hallsborough Galleries, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1964, lot 73.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1996, lot 110.
Brinkman Fine Art & Antiques, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 18 December 1996.
Literature
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of the Paintings and Pastels, Vol. III, Milan, 2001, no. XI-176 (illustrated p. 1383).
La Salle du Moyen Âge dans le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (première étude) forms part of a series of museum studies that Vuillard made in the years following World War I. In this atmospheric composition the main figure, clad with a purple overcoat and high toque, looks away from the spectator to observe the stained-glass windows, his profile neatly mirroring that of the bust behind him. Vuillard creates an intimate scene, whereby he invites the viewer to be another visitor at the museum.
During the war Vuillard had been mobilised in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris. One of his comrades commissioned him to decorate the apartment of his sister Madame Bauer-Judin in Binningen, Switzerland. Vuillard painted four large panels and two overdoors for this commission, which resulted in a decorative ensemble of his studies of Paris galleries, and is regarded as an important work from the artist's later oeuvre. In preparation for the final compositions, Vuillard created over a hundred sketches and pastels of museum interiors from the newly reopened Louvre, the chapel of the Palace of Versailles and the Museum of Decorative Arts.
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La Salle du Moyen ge dans le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (première étude)
La Salle du Moyen ge dans le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (première étude)
stamped with the artist's signature 'E Vuillard' (lower right)
distemper, pastel and charcoal on buff paper laid on canvas
98 x 114.5cm (38 9/16 x 45 1/16in).
Executed in 1922
Provenance
The artist's studio.
Hallsborough Galleries, London.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 29 April 1964, lot 73.
Anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 25 June 1996, lot 110.
Brinkman Fine Art & Antiques, Amsterdam.
Acquired from the above by the present owner on 18 December 1996.
Literature
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance. Critical Catalogue of the Paintings and Pastels, Vol. III, Milan, 2001, no. XI-176 (illustrated p. 1383).
La Salle du Moyen Âge dans le Musée des Arts Décoratifs (première étude) forms part of a series of museum studies that Vuillard made in the years following World War I. In this atmospheric composition the main figure, clad with a purple overcoat and high toque, looks away from the spectator to observe the stained-glass windows, his profile neatly mirroring that of the bust behind him. Vuillard creates an intimate scene, whereby he invites the viewer to be another visitor at the museum.
During the war Vuillard had been mobilised in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine near Paris. One of his comrades commissioned him to decorate the apartment of his sister Madame Bauer-Judin in Binningen, Switzerland. Vuillard painted four large panels and two overdoors for this commission, which resulted in a decorative ensemble of his studies of Paris galleries, and is regarded as an important work from the artist's later oeuvre. In preparation for the final compositions, Vuillard created over a hundred sketches and pastels of museum interiors from the newly reopened Louvre, the chapel of the Palace of Versailles and the Museum of Decorative Arts.
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