Édouard Vuillard - The Album



Édouard Vuillard
The Album
1895
67.9 x 204.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left: E. Vuillard
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2000, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard, Milano, 2003, V-96.2 info

Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 174


Provenance

Thadée Natanson and his wife, née Misia Godebska, 1895–1904, one of five decorative canvases, known collectively as The Album, commissioned in 1894–95, completed November 1895, and installed in their Paris apartment in or after January 1896, later installed in their summer residence Le Relais, Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, and possibly at La Grangette, Valvins, near Fontainebleau
Thadée Natanson, 1904–8
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 June 1908, nr. 51, to Rysselberghe
Théo van Rysselberghe, Paris, later Saint-Clair, Lavandou, from 1908 - died 1926
Émile Mayrisch, Colpach, Luxembourg, died 1928
his daughter, Mme Pierre Viénot, called Andrée Pierre-Viénot, by 1928–69, sold on 18 February 1969 to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein, New York, 1969–72, sold on 11 April 1972 to Annenberg
Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Rancho Mirage, California, 1972–2000, jointly with MMA, 2000–his death 2002
his bequest to MMA

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 2000.93.2

Other works by Edouard Vuillard


Edouard Vuillard The Suitor or Interior with Work-Table
The Suitor or Interior with Work-Table
1893

Edouard Vuillard The Green Interior (Figure Seated by a Curtained Window)
The Green Interior (Figure Seated by a Curtained Window)
1891

Edouard Vuillard The Lady of Fashion
The Lady of Fashion
c. 1891-92

Edouard Vuillard Marie in a Camisole at Her Dressing-Table
Marie in a Camisole at Her Dressing-Table
c. 1891-92

Edouard Vuillard Family Evening
Family Evening
1895