Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designed plates and stained glass. After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, Vuillard adopted a more realistic style, approaching landscapes and interiors with greater detail and vivid colors. In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted portraits of figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings.
Paintings by Édouard Vuillard
Portrait of Toulouse Lautrec, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, with the Natansons (1898)
Portrait of Toulouse Lautrec, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, with the Natansons, sometimes referred to as Toulouse-Lautrec Cooking, is an 1898 painting by French artist Édouard Vuillard. The work depicts fellow artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec on holiday cooking in the kitchen at Les Relais, the country home of Vuillard's patron Thadée Natanson in the city of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, in north-central France. Vuillard's painting captures Lautrec in a rare, sober state of mind, cooking his favorite dish of lobster while dressed in rain gear due to a recent storm. In the 1890s, Vuillard often focused on interior, domestic scenes during his summer vacation, producing paintings depicting ordinary people engaging in everyday life.
Both Vuillard and Lautrec were guests of the Natansons' salon, which included members of the post-Impressionists in their circle. The country home of Les Relais provided a kind of rehabilitation environment for Lautrec, which the Natansons nurtured and encouraged, even while Lautrec was experiencing alcohol withdrawal syndrome. Lautrec was famous for his culinary pursuits, and was known to combine art and cooking at elaborate parties where he invented new dishes and cocktails. After his death, Lautrec's recipes were collected and published in a cookbook. Vuillard's artistic depiction of Lautrec is thought to be inspired by the work of Diego Velázquez, the Bamboccianti, and Théodule Ribot. The painting is held by the Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, in Albi, France.
Interior Mother and Sister of the Artist (1893)
Intérieur, mère et sœur de l'artiste, par Édouard Vuillard
The Grand Teddy tea-rooms paintings (1918)
The Grand Teddy tea-rooms paintings is a collective name for three glue distemper oval paintings executed by Édouard Vuillard for Le Grand Teddy tea-rooms in Paris in 1918. The largest is privately owned, but is sometimes exhibited. One of the smaller works (identified in Vuillard's notes as The Cafe) was featured on an episode of the BBC television programme Fake or Fortune? which first broadcast on 19 January 2014. The location of the third (called The Oysters in Vuillard's notes) is currently unknown.
The Grand Teddy tea-rooms paintings are three oval paintings in glue distemper on canvas by Édouard Vuillard commissioned by interior designer Francis Jourdain to hang on the walls of the Grand Teddy bar and cafe in Paris. They were painted in 1918. With the closure of the cafe in 1922, the paintings were bought by Jos Hessel, Vuillard's friend and art dealer.
The Seamstress (painting) (1893)
The Seamstress is an 1893 oil painting by French artist Édouard Vuillard, located in the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which is in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is a small, intimate image of a woman sewing.
The Seamstress depicts a woman with her back to the viewer, sewing in front of a window. A feeling of three-dimensionality is created by the juxtaposition of vividly patterned wallpaper with plain grey walls. The painting seems almost unfinished, since Vuillard left the underlying board exposed in the table, the seamstress' dress, and the wall. The stripe of wallpaper that dominates the left third of the composition is ambiguously related to the rest of the room, leaving the viewer to decide their orientation to the subject. The interplay of those beiges, browns, and reds with the stark, flat pink of the window (a Vuillard hallmark) fills that ambiguous space with intensity. The scraps of cloth and wallpaper create patterns of color and shape as visually arresting as the subject matter.
Madame Vuillard by the Fireplace (1895)
Madame Vuillard by the Fireplace by Édouard Vuillard, c. 1895, oil on cardboard, Hermitage
Q49864801 (1920)
Exhibit in the Museu de Arte de São Paulo - São Paulo, Brazil. This work is old enough so that it is in the public domain.
Dining Room, Rue de Naples, Paris (1935)
Édouard Vuillard. Comedor, París, Rue de Naples. Seattle Art Museum.
Interior with Work Table (1893)
Interior with Work Table (also known as The Suitor), 1893
Fitting, actor in her wardrobe (1892)
Jeune femme en pied, de trois-quarts gauche, dans un intérieur, devant une table, enfilant une robe, aidée par une servante, penchée, de trois-quarts dos ; au fond, paravent.
Q117217909 (1897)
Café au bois de Boulogne
Q116143497 (1877)
Les meules au jardin des Étincelles à Criqueboeuf - Édouard Vuillard - Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud
Antoinette David-Weill and her nephew Maurice Lambiotte in Mareil-le-Guyon
'Les enfants au jardin' (Antoinette David-Weill et son neveu Maurice Lambiotte dans le parc de Mareil-le-Guyon, propriété des David-Weill).