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"This painting was included in the \u201cExposition \u00e0 l'Occasion du 60e Anniversaire de sa Fondation,\u201d Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 5 \u2013 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.)
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"According to the 2014 Sotheby\u2019s sale catalogue. Sold as \u201cLandscape at L\u2019Etang-la-Ville,\u201d painted circa 1900, 22.2 x 29.2 cm.
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"description": "(Galerie Ber\u00e8s, Paris, France, at the New York Art Fair, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)",
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"According to an invoice in the curatorial file. Sold as \u201cLandscape at L\u2019Etang la Ville (Le Verger),\u201d ca. 1900, 22.2 x 29.2 cm.
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"did_you_know": "Fellow artist Maurice Denis noted in his journal that Vuillard paid little attention to color theory. In this painting, Vuillard used several colors that are next to each other on the color wheel such as orange, yellow, and green rather than pairing complementary colors.",
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"description": "The organic strokes that comprise Vuillard\u2019s trees contrast with the linear divisions of agricultural land. The imagery is reminiscent of a passage written by the artist\u2019s muse, Misia Natanson: \u201cSolemn and dreamy, Vuillard led me along the river, past high silver birch trees. . . . He slowly moved through the yellowed grass. . . . Our silhouettes were just shadows against a pale sky.\u201d",
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"citation": "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.",
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"citation": "La Galerie Paul Vallotton a l\u02bchonneur de pre\u0301senter du 22 juin au 2 september 1989, une exposition d'huiles, pastels, dessins et lithographies d\u02bcE\u0301douard Vuillard (1868-1940). Lausanne: Galerie Paul Vallotton, 1989.",
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"page_number": "Reproduced: Vol. II, P. 587, no. VII-93",
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"citation": "Groom, Gloria. \"Edouard Vuillard.\" In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 76-101. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.",
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"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.",
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