id: 83373 accession number: 2020.119 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.119 updated: 2024-03-26 01:55:52.418000 Woman Ironing, 1892. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Oil on board; unframed: 21.4 x 25.4 cm (8 7/16 x 10 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.119 title: Woman Ironing title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1892 creation date earliest: 1892 creation date latest: 1892 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: 21.4 x 25.4 cm (8 7/16 x 10 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: e v translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS 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). title: Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism opening date: 2023-10-08T04:00:00 Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 8, 2023-January 14, 2024). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Édouard Vuillard. Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France (1960-1961).", 'opening_date': '1960-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Édouard Vuillard. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (1966).", 'opening_date': '1966-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Edouard Vuillard, K-X Roussel. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (March 16-May 12, 1968); Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (May 28-September 16, 1968).", 'opening_date': '1968-03-16T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Alfred Athis Natanson [1873-1932], Paris France date: footnotes: *
According to Pierre Georgel, Édouard Vuillard, K.-X. Roussel (Paris: Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1968), pp. 69, 145, cat. no. 14. Alfred Natanson used the pseudonym Alfred Athis for his playwright career. 
citations: passed to his daughter, Annette Charbonnier [1901–2002], Paris, France date: footnotes: citations: passed to her son, Jean Philippe Charbonnier [1921–2004], Paris, France date: footnotes: *
According to a bill of sale in the curatorial file.
citations: (Galerie Hopkins, Paris, France, April 26, 2013, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: 2013 footnotes: citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2013–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Georgel, Pierre. Édouard Vuillard, K.-X. Roussel. Haus der Kunst, Munich, 16 mars-12 mai 1968. Orangerie des Tuileries, 28 mai-16 septembre 1968. Paris, France: Réunion des Musées nationaux, 1968. page number: Mentioned: P. 69; Reproduced: P. 145, no. 14 url: Salomon, 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. I, P. 281, no. IV-98 url: Salsbury, Britany. Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism Exh. Cat. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023. page number: Reproduced: p. 171 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.119/2020.119_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.119/2020.119_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.119/2020.119_full.tif