{ "data": { "id": 314037, "accession_number": "2018.77.a", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "In Front of the Mirror (recto), c. 1891\u201392. \u00c9douard Vuillard (French, 1868\u20131940). Pastel; sheet: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of William Kelly Simpson, 2018.77.a", "current_location": null, "title": "In Front of the Mirror (recto)", "creation_date": "c. 1891\u201392", "creation_date_earliest": 1891, "creation_date_latest": 1892, "artists_tags": [ "male" ], "culture": [ "France, 19th century" ], "technique": "pastel", "support_materials": [], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - French", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)", "dimensions": { "sheet": { "height": 0.348, "height_inch": 13, "height_inch_fraction": 0.6875, "width": 0.272, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.6875 } }, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [ { "inscription": "recto, lower left, stamped in purple ink: E Vuillard", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null } ], "exhibitions": { "current": [ { "id": 324628, "title": "Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).", "opening_date": "2023-01-19T05:00:00" } ], "legacy": [] }, "provenance": [ { "description": "Family of the artist (L. 2497b)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 1 }, { "description": "Sam Salz, New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": 2 }, { "description": "sold to anonymous, October 15, 1957", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "October 15, 1957", "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "Sotheby's, New York, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "November 14, 1990", "sortorder": 4 }, { "description": "William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1990-2018", "sortorder": 5 }, { "description": "the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "June 4, 2018", "sortorder": 6 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Vuillard created this portrait of his sister Marie while she was living at home and working with their mother at her corset- and dressmaking business.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "During the early 1890s, \u00c9douard Vuillard repeatedly represented his mother and older sister, Marie, in domestic settings. This drawing relates to a pastel and painting, all of which show Marie standing before a mirror, raising her arms as if to adjust her hairstyle. A charcoal study of a nude male appears on the verso, suggesting that the artist may have reused the sheet.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79873935" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2018.77.a-devant-le-miroir-rec", "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2018.77.a-in-front-of-the-mirr" ] }, "citations": [], "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.77.a", "images": { "annotation": null, "web": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.77.a/2018.77.a_web.jpg", "width": "703", "height": "900", "filesize": "223694", "filename": "2018.77.a_web.jpg" }, "print": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.77.a/2018.77.a_print.jpg", "width": "2657", "height": "3400", "filesize": "2658015", "filename": "2018.77.a_print.jpg" }, "full": { "url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.77.a/2018.77.a_full.tif", "width": "5623", "height": "7196", "filesize": "121419948", "filename": "2018.77.a_full.tif" } }, "alternate_images": [], "creditline": "Bequest of William Kelly Simpson", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 314037, "creators": [ { "id": 1833, "description": "\u00c9douard Vuillard (French, 1868\u20131940)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "After attending the Lyc\u00e9e Condorcet, \u00c9douard Vuillard entered the studio of history painter Diog\u00e8ne Maillart (1840-1926). In 1886 he enrolled at the Acad\u00e9mie Julian, where he was taught by Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) and Bouguereau (q.v.). The following year he was accepted into the \u00c9cole des Beaux-Arts and was briefly in the atelier of G\u00e9r\u00f4me (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 \u00c9mile 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 Com\u00e9die des Champs-Elys\u00e9es 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.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1868", "death_year": "1940", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1 } ], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2018-06-04T00:00:00-04:00", "sortable_date": 1891, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "c. 1891\u201392", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": false, "record_type": "part", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": "2018.77", "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-07-01 11:21:40.743000" } }