La Modiste (The Milliner)
Félix Vallotton
1894
Medium
woodcut on wove paper
Dimensions
plate: 18 x 22.6 cm (7 1/16 x 8 7/8 in.) sheet: 25.6 x 32.5 cm (10 1/16 x 12 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund
Accession Number
1983.90.1
About the Artist
Félix Vallotton
Félix Vallotton (1865–1925) was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, into a comfortable middle-class family, and moved to Paris in 1882 to enroll at the Académie Julian, where he studied under the portrait painter Jules Joseph Lefebvre and the history painter Gustave Boulanger. Paris would remain his home for the rest of his life, and he became a French citizen in 1900 following his marriage to the art ...