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Gain access to this incredible resource through either a monthly or a yearly subscription and search the entire collection from your desktop, compare multiple images side by side and zoom into the minute details of the images. Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com . Creator Name: Vuillard, Edouard Creator Dates/Places: French, 1868 - 1940 Creator Name-CRT: Edouard Vuillard Title: Two Studies for The Tent View: Full View Creation Start Date: 1908 Creation End Date: 1908 Creation Date: 1908 Object Type: Drawings and Watercolors Materials and Techniques: pencil Dimensions: Overall: 17 x 13 3/4 x 2 in. (43.18 x 34.92 x 5.08 cm.) AMICA Contributor: Dallas Museum of Art Owner Location: Dallas, Texas, USA ID Number: 1985.R.84 Credit Line: Dallas Museum of Art, The Wendy and Emery Reves Collection Copyright: ? Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris Rights: http://www.arsny.com Context: Edouard Vuillard was the master of Parisian observation. The decade of his greatest accomplishments was the 1890s, when this small painting was made. Vuillard's paintings at that time were either very large decorations, commissioned to fit into domestic environments, or tiny cardboard concoctions whose modesty of scale was matched by a modesty of subject. In most cases, Vuillard preferred to represent the interiors of petit-bourgeois Paris, and his small rooms, stuffed with furniture and papered with wonderful patterns, have joined the canon of modern art.This delightful cardboard painting is something of an exception in Vuillard's production of the 1890s in that it represents a public rather than a private place. Nevertheless, it remains a supreme example of interior genre, focusing no on a public moment but on a quiet domestic scene that Vuillard observed in a restaurant. Vuillard "sets" the painting's space so that we imagine ourselves entering the little restaurant, and, rather than greeting us with the jaded habitués so common in paintings of such places by Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec, he presents us with a young family out for a meal together. Because light floods in from the large windows, we are to imagine that the scene occurs on a Sunday afternoon, when both mother and father are at leisure and the family has time for the luxury of a restaurant meal. Vuillard pays close attention to the relationship between the mother and her baby, to the curiosity of the little girl, who leans her arms on the table, and to the family dog, who waits in anticipation for the baby to drop some food. The entire scene is delightfully sentimental and charming, and refuses to allow us one wicked thought.Vuillard was twenty-six years old when he painted this work. He still lived with his mother, as he did throughout her life, and consorted with a convivial group of supportive vanguard artists, writers, and musicians who formed a circle around the Natanson family and their journal, "La Revue blanche." Always childless, Vuillard was a doting uncle to his one niece and frequently painted children. Indeed, if Vuillard had a signature figure in his paintings of the 1890s, it was a little girl, and this one, wither dark black eyes and mop of unruly hair, is among his most charming."Impressionist Paintings Drawings and Sculpture from the Wendy and Emery Reves Collection," page 113 AMICA ID: DMA_.1985.R.84 AMICA Library Year: 2003 Media Metadata Rights: AMICA PUBLIC RIGHTS: a) Access to the materials is granted for personal and non-commercial use. b) A full educational license for non-commercial use is available from Cartography Associates at www.davidrumsey.com/amica/institution_subscribe.html c) Licensed users may continue their examination of additional materials provided by Cartography Associates, and d) commercial rights are available from the rights holder. Home
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