Siesta, from the first album of L'Estampe originale
Medium
Lithograph from two stones on white wove paper
Dimensions
Image: 29 × 22.8 cm (11 7/16 × 9 in.); Sheet: 58.9 × 41.6 cm (23 1/4 × 16 7/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
76701
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...