Edouard Vuillard

Name

Edouard Vuillard

Birth Year

1868

Death Year

1940

Country

France

Movement

Les Nabis

Edouard Vuillard Biography

Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris. After his father's death, in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarchip to continue his education. In the Lycée Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard's future brother in law), Maurice Denis and Lugné-Poë. On Roussel's advice he refused from the military career and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. In the Ecole he met Pierre Bonnard.

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Edouard Vuillard 41 Most Important Paintings and Artworks

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  The Breakfast/Le Breakfast.
  

  1892. Oil on cardboard mounted on wood. 30.7 x 26.6 cm. Private collection.

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  Jeanne Lanvin.
  

  c.1935. 124.5 x 136.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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  Henri De Toulouse-Lautrec, At Villeneuve Sur Yonne.
  

  1898. Oil on cardboard. 39 x 30 cm. Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Albi, France.

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  After The Meal.
  

  c.1900. Oil on board. 28 x 36 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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  Octagonal Self-Portrait/Autoportrait Octogonal.
  

  c.1890. Oil on cardboard. 36 x 28 cm. Private collection.

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  The Reader/Le Liseur.
  

  c.1890. Oil on cardboard. 35 x 19 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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  Sleep.
  

  c.1891. 33 x 64.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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  Mrs Vuillard Sewing/Madame Vuillard Cousant.
  

  1893. Oil on cardboard. 18 x 24.8 cm. Private collection.

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  Old Woman In Interior/La Vielle Femme Dans Un Intérieur.
  

  c.1893. Oil on cardboard. Collection of Otto Krebs, Holzdorf. now in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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  In Bed/Au Lit.
  

  1891. Oil on canvas. 74 x 92 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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  The Dress With Foliage/La Robe À Ramages.
  

  1891. Oil on canvas. 38 x 46 cm. Museo de Arte, Sao Paolo, Brazil.

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  L'Elégante.
  

  c.1891-92. Oil on cardboard. 28.4 x 15.3 cm. Private collection.

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  Biahna Duhamel In "Miss Helyett".
  

  c.1891. Pastel on paper. 42 x 26 cm. Private collection.

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  Studio Or The Suitor/L'Atelier Ou Le Prétendant.
  

  1893. Oil on cardboard. 31.8 x 36.4 cm. Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA.

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  Claude Bernheim De Villers.
  

  c.1906. 68 x 97 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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  Children In A Room.
  

  1909. 84.5 x 77.5 mm. Gouache on canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.

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  The Boulevard Of Batignolles/Le Boulevard Des Batignolles.
  

  c.1910. Oil on paper. 78 x 96 cm. Lower Saxony State Museum and Art Gallery, Hannover, Germany.

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  Theodore Duret.
  

  1912. Cardboard mounted on wood. 95 x 75 cm. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.

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  Dr. Georges Viau In His Office Treating Annette Roussel.
  

  1914. 107.5 x 138 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

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  Countess Jean De Polignac.
  

  1932. 116 x 89.5 cm. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.