The Tuileries Garden (Le jardin des Tuileries)
published 1896
Medium
color lithograph on china paper
Dimensions
overall: 42.8 x 57.3 cm (16 7/8 x 22 9/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1943.3.9061
Art Historical Context
Step into the lush allure of Paris's Tuileries Garden with Édouard Vuillard's *Le jardin des Tuileries (1896), a color lithograph on delicate china paper. Measuring 42.8 x 57.3 cm, this print captures the garden's timeless elegance during the Belle Époque, a period of cultural flourishing in fin-siècle France. Vu, a key figure in Post-Impressionist group Les Nabis, infused his work with decorative patterns and intimate observations of everyday life, drawing inspiration from Japanese prints and the ornamental style of Paul Gauguin. Printed using the innovative technique of color lithography—wh...
About the Artist
Edouard Vuillard · 1868–1940
Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born on November 11, 1868, in Cuiseaux, Saône-et-Loire, France, to a retired naval captain father and seamstress mother, Marie Vuillard. After his father's early death in 1884, the family settled in Paris, where Vuillard attended the Lycée Condorcet, meeting future Nabis members like Ker-Xavier Roussel—later his brother-in-law—and Maurice Denis. He began formal training i...