The Game of Checkers, plate one from Landscapes and Interiors
Medium
Color lithograph on grayish-ivory China paper
Dimensions
Image: 36.9 × 28.5 cm (14 9/16 × 11 1/4 in.); Sheet: 38 × 30.8 cm (15 × 12 3/16 in.)
Classification
lithograph
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
22735
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...