id: 314037 accession number: 2018.77.a share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2018.77.a updated: 2022-01-04 18:08:32.695000 Devant le miroir (recto), c. 1898. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940). 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 title: Devant le miroir (recto) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1898 creation date earliest: 1893 creation date latest: 1903 current location: creditline: Bequest of William Kelly Simpson copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: pastel department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940) - artist French painter and printmaker, 1868-1940 --- measurements: Sheet: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: recto, lower left, stamped in purple ink: E Vuillard translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Family of the artist (L. 2497b) date: footnotes: citations: Sam Salz, New York, NY date: footnotes: citations: sold to anonymous, October 15, 1957 date: October 15, 1957 footnotes: citations: Sotheby's, New York, NY date: November 14, 1990 footnotes: citations: William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY date: 1990-2018 footnotes: citations: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: June 4, 2018 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: During the early 1890s, Édouard 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.77.a/2018.77.a_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.77.a/2018.77.a_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2018.77.a/2018.77.a_full.tif