Edouard Vuillard
Theater Program for “Les Soutiens de la société (Pillars of Society)”
1896
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Edouard Vuillard
Theater Program for “Les Soutiens de la société (Pillars of Society)”
1896
Physical Qualities
Crayon lithograph with scraping, Sheet: 322 × 501 mm. (12 11/16 × 19 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Print Fund
Object Number
1950.145
In this mysterious dark interior, a figure opens the curtains to shed light upon a larger group of figures. Unlike other examples of programs in this installation in which the artist used his own handwritten text, here Vuillard included text typeset in two formal blocks. One side of the program lists information about the play, while the other side is an advertisement for La Revue encyclopédique Larousse, the great French encyclopedia.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1950; purchased from Kende Galleries, New York, 30 September 1950 (sale cat. 202)
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Inscribed: lower right in stone: "E Vuillard"
