Edouard Vuillard and Ambroise Vollard
Two Sisters-in-Law
1898
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Physical Qualities
Color crayon and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 378 × 309 mm. (14 7/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Image: 355 × 295 mm. (14 × 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Purchased as the gift of Lilian Sarah Greif in Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Nelson Gutman's Birthdays
Object Number
1965.21
In this interior scene, two women sit together in a wildly patterned room. The seated figure, dressed in white, has been identified as Misia Natanson, wife of Thadée Natanson, one of the publishers of La Revue blanche. The figure in black is Marthe Mellot, a wellknown actress and wife of Alfred Natanson, also a publisher of the influential journal. Her dark shape becomes one with the equally dark shapes of stool and table as she kneels to talk with her companion. Their familiarity and casual poses create a sense of
warmth. This print is one of the lithographs included in Landscapes and Interiors, an album published by Ambroise Vollard in 1899.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1965; Kennedy Galleries, NY
Bonnard & Vuillard
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "BMA Today," Summer 2008, ill. p. 12.
Signed: 4
Inscribed: by later hand, lower left in graphite: "209/17"
