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The Cook by Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

Medium

color lithograph

Dimensions

40.7 × 30 cm

Classification

Print

Department

Prints

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art

Credit

Gift of the Hanna Fund

Accession Number

1951.65.12

Tags

male

About this artwork

The artist’s mother was known for her hospitality toward her son’s Nabi friends, who occasionally dined in the Vuillards’ apartment. Madame Vuillard reigned in the kitchen, but here,the artist depicts her as diminutive and frozen, part of the still life of objects and patterns of the room.

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