The Avenue
Medium
Color lithograph, with touches of dark blue pastel, on grayish-ivory laid chine
Dimensions
Image, including stray marks: 32 × 45.8 cm (12 5/8 × 18 1/16 in.); Sheet: 41.6 × 48.1 cm (16 7/16 × 18 15/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
45803
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...