id: 83453 accession number: 2020.143 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2020.143 updated: 2024-03-26 01:55:52.494000 The Beach at Saint-Jacut, 1909. Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Distemper on paper, laid down on canvas; image and sheet: 57.8 x 43.2 cm (22 3/4 x 17 in.); mounted: 58.7 x 44.3 cm (23 1/8 x 17 7/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift 2020.143 title: The Beach at Saint-Jacut title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1909 creation date earliest: 1909 creation date latest: 1909 current location: creditline: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift copyright: --- culture: France, 20th century technique: distemper on paper, laid down on canvas department: Drawings collection: DR - French type: Drawing find spot: catalogue raisonne: Salomon and Cogeval VIII-345 --- 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: Image and Sheet: 57.8 x 43.2 cm (22 3/4 x 17 in.); Mounted: 58.7 x 44.3 cm (23 1/8 x 17 7/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: stamped, in black ink, at lower right: E. Vuillard [Lugt 2497a] 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 --- PROVENANCE Studio of the artist [1868-1940; Lugt 2497a] date: 1909-1940 footnotes: citations: (sale, Galerie Motte, Geneva, June 16, 1972, no. 28) date: 1972 footnotes: citations: (sale, Hotel President, Geneva, December 3-12, 1989, no. 3159) date: 1989 footnotes: citations: Private collection, Paris date: after 1989-before 2008 footnotes: citations: (Neffe-Degrandt Fine Art, London, sold to private collection, Japan) date: 1999 footnotes: citations: Private collection, Japan date: after 1999 footnotes: citations: (Jill Newhouse, New York, NY) date: after 1999-2008 footnotes: citations: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH date: 2008-2020 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 2020- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Chastel, André. Vuillard, 1868–1940. Paris: Floury, 1946. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 71 url: Ventes aux enchères publiques. Geneva: Hôtel Président, 1989. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: pp. 222–223, no. 3159 url: Salomon, Antoine and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Paris: Wildenstein, 2003. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: vol. II, p. 985, no. VIII-345 url: https://view.publitas.com/wildenstein-plattner-institute-ol46yv9z6qv6/c-r_edouard_vuillard_volume_ii_wildenstein_institute/page/456-457 --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.143/2020.143_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.143/2020.143_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2020.143/2020.143_full.tif