Edouard Vuillard, Edouard Vuillard
Cover for “L’Album des Peintres-Graveurs”
1893-1903
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Edouard Vuillard, Edouard Vuillard
Cover for “L’Album des Peintres-Graveurs”
1893-1903
Physical Qualities
Color tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 643 x 472 mm. (25 5/16 x 18 9/16 in.)
Image: 595 x 460 mm. (23 7/16 x 18 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchase Fund
Object Number
1950.14
Ambroise Vollard had intended to publish a third portfolio of prints by multiple artists in 1898 but it was never produced. However, Vuillard had already designed this atmospheric and inventive lithograph for its cover. The fantastical nature of the scene is reinforced by the inclusion of a child sleeping in an enormous basket.From this point forward, Vollard turned his attention to publishing monographic print projects, rather than albums that featured one or two prints by many different artists.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1950; purchased from Gérald Cramer
Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge
Bonnard & Vuillard
Signed: 5
Inscribed: lower right in stone: "edité par A. Vollard 6 rue Laffiere Paris"