id: 85861 accession number: 2020.120 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.120 updated: 2024-03-26 01:55:54.911000 Orchard, 1897. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Oil on board; unframed: 22.4 x 29.4 cm (8 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.120 title: Orchard title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1897 creation date earliest: 1897 creation date latest: 1897 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: 22.4 x 29.4 cm (8 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower center: E Vuillard 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). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': "Exposition à l'occasion du 60e anniversaire de sa fondation. Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland (1973).", 'opening_date': '1973-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Édouard Vuillard. Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland (1989).', 'opening_date': '1989-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Maîtres suisses et francais des XIXe et siècles. Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland (1991).', 'opening_date': '1991-01-01T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland) date: by 1973–at least 2003 footnotes: *
This painting was included in the “Exposition à l'Occasion du 60e Anniversaire de sa Fondation,” Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 5 – September 8, 1973, cat. no. 15.

The painting remained with the gallery until at least 2003. See: 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-93, p. 587, ill.)

citations: (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern Switzerland, June 18, 2004, lot 150, sold to a private collector) date: footnotes: *
According to the 2014 Sotheby’s sale catalogue. Sold as “Landscape at L’Etang-la-Ville,” painted circa 1900, 22.2 x 29.2 cm. 
citations: (sold at Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 30, 2014, lot 11) date: footnotes: citations: (Galerie Berès, Paris, France, at the New York Art Fair, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) date: 2014 footnotes: *
According to an invoice in the curatorial file. Sold as “Landscape at L’Etang la Ville (Le Verger),” ca. 1900, 22.2 x 29.2 cm. 
citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art date: 2014–2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020– footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS La Galerie Paul Vallotton: Exposition du 5 juillet au 8 septembre 1973 : a l'occasion du 60e anniversaire de sa fondation, 1913-1973. Lausanne: La Galerie, 1973. page number: Reproduced: no. 15 url: La Galerie Paul Vallotton a lʼhonneur de présenter du 22 juin au 2 september 1989, une exposition d'huiles, pastels, dessins et lithographies dʼÉdouard Vuillard (1868-1940). Lausanne: Galerie Paul Vallotton, 1989. page number: Reproduced: no. 7 url: La Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne présente du 3 juillet au 2 septembre 1991 l'exposition: Mâitres suisses et français des XIXe et XXe siècles: huiles, aquarelles. Lausanne, 991. page number: Reproduced: no. 89 url: Salomon, Antoine, Guy Cogeval, and Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2003. page number: Reproduced: Vol. II, P. 587, no. VII-93 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.120/2020.120_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.120/2020.120_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.120/2020.120_full.tif