Édouard Vuillard

(1868–1940) fransk målare

Édouard Vuillard (France, 1868–1940) is listed in the catalogue as a painter, a draughtsman, and a photographer. By year of birth, Édouard Vuillard belongs to the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’ in this site’s history of art.

Édouard Vuillard was born in Cuiseaux and died in La Baule-Escoublac. Édouard Vuillard trained at Lycée Condorcet, Académie Julian, and Beaux-Arts de Paris. Édouard Vuillard studied under Jean-Léon Gérôme. Édouard Vuillard worked in Paris, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Spain, and London. Wikidata associates Édouard Vuillard with Post-impressionism, Japonisme, and Les Nabis. Édouard Vuillard became a member of Comité national de l'estampe and Académie des beaux-arts. The students included August Tørsleff.

The best-known works include ‘Antoinette David-Weill and her nephew Maurice Lambiotte in Mareil-le-Guyon’, ‘After the snack’, and ‘The Seamstress’. The works belong mainly to the genres portrait, still life, and landscape painting. The catalogue has 250 works by Édouard Vuillard with free images. The dated works span the years 1886–1940. Works by Édouard Vuillard are held by several collections, among them Prints in the National Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Musée d’Orsay. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Post-Impressionism and Symbolism’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Georges Lacombe, Cesare Saccaggi, Jules Grün, Jorge Colaço, and Georges de Feure.

• Post-Impressionism and Symbolism
• Portrait of Toulouse Lautrec, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, with the Natansons