id: 80329 accession number: 2020.118 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.118 updated: 2024-08-08 15:11:11.890000 Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother), 1899. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Oil on board; unframed: 29.8 x 32.4 x 2.9 cm (11 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.118 title: Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother) title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1899 creation date earliest: 1899 creation date latest: 1899 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on board 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: Unframed: 29.8 x 32.4 x 2.9 cm (11 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Artist's signature: upper left: E Vuillard translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022). title: Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection opening date: 2022-09-11T04:00:00 Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Oeuvres de Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Ibels, Aristide Maillol, Hermann-Paul, Ranson, Roussel, Serusier, Vallotoon, Vuillard. Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France (April 2-22, 1900).', 'opening_date': '1900-04-02T05:00:00Z'} * {'description': 'Exposition d’oeuvres de Vuillard de 1890 à 1910. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (January 31–February 25, 1938).', 'opening_date': '1938-02-25T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Collection of the Artist date: 1900 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, March 28, 1900, acquired from the artist) date: 1900 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, November 26, 1900, sold to Georges Dusseuil) date: 1900 footnotes: citations: Georges Dusseuil [1848-1926], Paris France date: 1900-1902 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, May 6, 1902, acquired from Georges Dusseuil) date: 1902-1903 footnotes: citations: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, April 29, 1903, sold to Olivier Sainsere) date: 1903 footnotes: *
According to Antoine Salomon, Guy Cogeval, and Mathias Chivot, Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels (Milan: Skira, 2003), vol. II, cat. no. VII-54, pp. 569-270, ill.
 
citations: Olivier Sainsere [1852-1923], Paris, France date: 1903–? footnotes: citations: by descent to his daughter, Jeanne (Sainsère) Richet [1883–1972], Paris, France date: by 1923 footnotes: citations: by descent to her daughter, Jacqueline (Richet) Souchère [1908–1984], Paris, France date: by 1972 footnotes: citations: by descent to her daughter, Jeanne (Souchère) Gelin, Paris, France date: by 1984 footnotes: citations: Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris, France date: before 2002 footnotes: *
According to documentation supplied by Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris, in the curatorial file. 
citations: (Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: 2002 footnotes: citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2002–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Solomon, Antoine, Guy Cogeval, and Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2003. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: Vol. II, P. 568-569, no. VII-54 url: Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Interior Dramas.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 40-93. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. page number: Mentioned: P. 43; Reproduced: P. 65, no. 8 url: Œuvres de Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Ibels, Aristide Maillol, Hermann Paul, Ranson, Roussel, Serusier, Vallotton, Vuillard: catalogue. Paris: MM. Bernheim Jeune et fils, 1900. page number: Mentioned: Vuillard, no. 8 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.118/2020.118_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.118/2020.118_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.118/2020.118_full.tif