id: 130457 accession number: 1953.212 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.212 updated: 2024-04-25 11:08:14.464000 Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens"), 1894. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Distemper on fabric; framed: 229.9 x 113 x 11.4 cm (90 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 214.2 x 96.3 cm (84 5/16 x 37 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1953.212 title: Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens") title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1894 creation date earliest: 1894 creation date latest: 1894 current location: 223 20th Century Avant-Garde creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: distemper on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) - artist After attending the Lycée Condorcet, Édouard Vuillard entered the studio of history painter Diogène Maillart (1840-1926). In 1886 he enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he was taught by Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) and Bouguereau (q.v.). The following year he was accepted into the École des Beaux-Arts and was briefly in the atelier of Gérôme (q.v.). At this time he also studied seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the works of Chardin (1699-1779). By 1889 Vuillard was persuaded by his friend painter and theorist Maurice Denis (1870-1943) to join the newly formed group of artists known as the Nabis. The Nabis based many of their ideas on synthetism, first developed by Gauguin (q.v.) and Émile Bernard (1868-1941), in which the artist was to work not from nature but from memory. Vuillard's initial synthetist works reveal a preoccupation with pattern and bright colors, denying the three-dimensionality of the object. By 1892, however, his colors were more subdued, reflecting his desire to mimic the unusual lighting effects that he had seen in symbolist theater. Vuillard's first major commissions date from this time, including nine panels for the dining room of Alexandre Natanson and four decorative panels for the library of Dr. Henri Vaquez. In 1898 Vuillard visited Venice and Florence, and the following year he and Bonnard (q.v.), a fellow member of the Nabis, made an excursion to London. Later they went to Milan and Venice and eventually to Spain. Vuillard also made trips to Brittany and Normandy. His first public commission came in 1912, when he was asked to paint panels for the foyer of the Comédie des Champs-Elysées in Paris. During that period he moved beyond the synthetism of the Nabis and returned to a more traditional perspective. At the same time he was accepting commissions for portraits. In 1936 he was chosen to paint a mural at the Palais des Nations in Geneva and was subsequently elected to the Institut de France. --- measurements: Framed: 229.9 x 113 x 11.4 cm (90 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 214.2 x 96.3 cm (84 5/16 x 37 15/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: E. Vuillard 94 translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Work of Edouard Vuillard opening date: 1954-01-27T05:00:00 Work of Edouard Vuillard. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 27-March 14, 1954). title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Paths of Abstract Art opening date: 1960-10-05T04:00:00 Paths of Abstract Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-November 13, 1960). title: Object in Focus: Under the Trees (Sous les arbres) by Edouard Vuillard opening date: 1998-09-29T00:00:00 Object in Focus: Under the Trees (Sous les arbres) by Edouard Vuillard. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 29-November 29, 1998). title: Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Roussel, 1890-1930 opening date: 2001-02-21T00:00:00 Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Roussel, 1890-1930. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 21-May 16, 2001); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (June 18-September 9, 2001). title: Edouard Vuillard opening date: 2003-01-19T00:00:00 Edouard Vuillard. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (January 19-April 20, 2003); Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (May 15-August 24, 2003). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). title: Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900 opening date: 2021-07-01T04:00:00 Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Paris, Bernheim-Jeune. Vuillard (1906), no. 26 (according to Jacques Salomon, who is preparing a catalogue raisonné).', 'opening_date': '1906-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Paris, Galerie des Beaux-Arts. Les étapes de l'art contemporain II: Gauguin, ses amis, L'École de Pont-Aven et l'Académie Julian (1934), no. 165 (according to Salomon, unpub.).", 'opening_date': '1934-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paris, Les Cadres. Peintres de la Revue blanche (1936), no. 79 (according to Salomon, unpub.).', 'opening_date': '1936-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Exposition É. Vuillard (1938), no. 34b, Sous les arbres, 214 x 97 cm, à Henri Blum (repr.).', 'opening_date': '1938-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'cma; New York, Museum of Modern Art. Édouard Vuillard (1954), 20, 34 (repr.), 101.', 'opening_date': '1954-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'cma. Paths of Abstract Art (1960), no. 10, pl. II, 9 (repr.).', 'opening_date': '1960-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor; Art Institute of Chicago. Édouard Vuillard 1868-1940 (1971-72), 39 (repr.), 49-50, 225.', 'opening_date': '1940-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Cleveland, Ohio: The Cleveland Museum of Art; September 29 - November 29, 1998. "Object in Focus: Under the Trees (Sous les arbres) by Edouard Vuillard."', 'opening_date': '1998-09-29T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The Art Institute of Chicago (2/21-5/27/01); NY: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (6/18 - 9/9/01); "Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Roussel, 1890-1930"exh. cat. no. 33, pp. 120-121.', 'opening_date': '2001-09-09T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (1/19/2003-4/20/2003), Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (5/15/2003-8/24/2003): "Edouard Vuillard", exh.cat.no. 118, p. 172-173.', 'opening_date': '2003-01-19T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'CMA (organizer). Cleveland Museum of Art, Oct. 21, 2007- January 13, 2008: "Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art"', 'opening_date': '2007-10-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Alexandre Natanson [1867-1936], Paris date: 1894-1929 footnotes: *