Edouard Vuillard
Theater Program for “La Vie muette (The Silent Life)”
1894
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Edouard Vuillard
Theater Program for “La Vie muette (The Silent Life)”
1894
Physical Qualities
Crayon and tusche lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 331 × 254 mm. (13 1/16 × 10 in.)
Image: 313 × 240 mm. (12 5/16 × 9 7/16 in.)
Credit Line
Blanche Adler Memorial Fund
Object Number
1954.16
Vuillard designed this program for Théâtre de l’Oeuvre in 1894. The psychological tension seen between the distant male figure in stark silhouette and the lightly sketched woman embracing her children is very rare in the artist’s work, indicating that Vuillard tried to produce designs for his programs that related to the content of the productions.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1954; Ferdinand Roten Gallery, Baltimore
The Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, "The Nabis and the Parisian Avant-Garde," 4 December 1988 - 14 February 1989.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Inscribed: lower left in stone: "EV"
