The Birth of Annette
Édouard Jean Vuillard
c. 1899
Medium
Color lithograph on grayish-ivory laid China paper
Dimensions
Image: 41.2 × 51.3 cm (16 1/4 × 20 1/4 in.); Sheet: 43 × 57.1 cm (16 15/16 × 22 1/2 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
3446
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...