Old Woman at a Stove (Vielle Femme au Fourneau)
1893
Medium
lithograph in black on tan wove paper; laid down
Dimensions
image: 25.8 x 20 cm (10 3/16 x 7 7/8 in.) sheet: 29.5 x 23.3 cm (11 5/8 x 9 3/16 in.) support: 45 x 31.9 cm (17 11/16 x 12 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Robert A. Hauslohner
Accession Number
1990.106.54
About the Artist
Edouard Vuillard · 1868–1940
Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born on November 11, 1868, in Cuiseaux, Saône-et-Loire, France, to a retired naval captain father and seamstress mother, Marie Vuillard. After his father's early death in 1884, the family settled in Paris, where Vuillard attended the Lycée Condorcet, meeting future Nabis members like Ker-Xavier Roussel—later his brother-in-law—and Maurice Denis. He began formal training i...