Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009165Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens")
About the Artwork
This painting is from a nine-panel decorative series showing children playing in two of Paris’s most spacious parks: the Tuileries Gardens and the Bois de Boulogne. It depicts a game of hide-and-seek in which a girl conceals herself behind a tree. The stillness of the women resting on green chairs at the right is countered by children running at the left. Rather than a realistic rendering of the subject, Édouard Vuillard arranged the composition in bands of colorful, decorative patterns so that the painting seems like a tapestry.
Inscriptions
Signed lower right: E. Vuillard 94
Provenance
1894-1929: Alexandre Natanson [1867-1936], Paris 1929: (Natanson sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 16, 1929, lot 122, sold to Georges Bénard) 1929-1933: Georges Bénard, Paris 1933: (Bénard sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 9, 1933, lot 90, sold to Henri Blum) 1933-: Henri Blum, Paris Until 1953: (César de Hauke, New York, sold to Knoedler & Co.) 1953: (Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1953-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Work of Edouard Vuillard. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 27-March 14, 1954). In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). Paths of Abstract Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 5-November 13, 1960). Object in Focus: Under the Trees (Sous les arbres) by Edouard Vuillard. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 29-November 29, 1998). Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, Roussel, 1890-1930. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 21-May 16, 2001); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (June 18-September 9, 2001). Edouard Vuillard. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (organizer) (January 19-April 20, 2003); Montréal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (May 15-August 24, 2003). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
- Date
- 1894
- Medium
- distemper on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 229.9 x 113 x 11.4 cm (90 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); Unframed: 214.2 x 96.3 cm (84 5/16 x 37 15/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Accession no.
- 1953.212
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