Edouard Vuillard and Edouard Vuillard
Cover for “L’Album des Peintres-Graveurs”
c. 1899
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- Artist: Edouard Vuillard
- Printer: Edouard Vuillard
Cover for “L’Album des Peintres-Graveurs”
c. 1899
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.)
Portfolio/Series
Executed for the third but unpublished "L'Album des Peintres-Graveurs" (1898-)
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
BMA (organized by Rutgers University Art Gallery), "The Color Revolution, Color Lithography in France 1890-1900," 10 November - 31 December 1978, cat. 196.
Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, "The Color Revolution...," Sept. 9 - Oct. 29, 1978.
BMA, "Toulouse Lautrec and his Contemporaries," 27 May - 17 August 1986.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, "The Color Revolution...," Sept. 9 - Oct. 29, 1978.
BMA, "Toulouse Lautrec and his Contemporaries," 27 May - 17 August 1986.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Signed: 5
Inscribed: lower right in stone: "edité par A. Vollard 6 rue Laffiere Paris"
