Project for a Cover of a Printed Portfolio
Édouard Jean Vuillard
c. 1899
Medium
Color lithograph on grayish-ivory laid China paper
Dimensions
Image: 61.4 × 45.7 cm (24 3/16 × 18 in.); Sheet: 64.5 × 47.4 cm (25 7/16 × 18 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
36825
About the Artist
Édouard Jean Vuillard · 1868–1940
Édouard Vuillard (1868–1940) was a French painter and printmaker whose intimate, pattern-saturated domestic interiors place him among the most distinctive voices of the Post-Impressionist era. Born in Cuiseaux and raised in Paris, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Julian, where he formed friendships with Pierre Bonnard, Maurice Denis, and other young painters who would coales...