Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009605Orchard
About the Artwork
The organic strokes that comprise Vuillard’s trees contrast with the linear divisions of agricultural land. The imagery is reminiscent of a passage written by the artist’s muse, Misia Natanson: “Solemn and dreamy, Vuillard led me along the river, past high silver birch trees. . . . He slowly moved through the yellowed grass. . . . Our silhouettes were just shadows against a pale sky.”
Inscriptions
signed lower center: E Vuillard
Provenance
by 1973–at least 2003: (Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland) (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern Switzerland, June 18, 2004, lot 150, sold to a private collector) (sold at Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 30, 2014, lot 11) 2014: (Galerie Berès, Paris, France, at the New York Art Fair, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) 2014–2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
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
- 1897
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 22.4 x 29.4 cm (8 13/16 x 11 9/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.120
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