The Game of Checkers
Medium
Color lithograph on grayish-ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 37.4 × 28.2 cm (14 3/4 × 11 1/8 in.); Sheet: 44.6 × 34.7 cm (17 9/16 × 13 11/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80621
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...