Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009617Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother)
About the Artwork
Vuillard depicted close family members in this intimate domestic scene. The woman at the lower right corner of the composition is his mother, Marie Vuillard. She is tending to a her grandchild, Annette Roussel, the daughter of Vuillard’s sister and her husband, Ker-Xavier Roussel, who was also an artist. The two figures are in the apartment that Vuillard shared with his mother in Paris. Vuillard adopted a particularly steep angle of view in this painting, looking down upon the interaction of the figures. The viewer assumes the position of the artist himself, looking over his mother’s shoulder as she lovingly feeds the baby.
Inscriptions
Artist's signature: upper left: E Vuillard
Provenance
1900: Collection of the Artist 1900: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, March 28, 1900, acquired from the artist) 1900: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, November 26, 1900, sold to Georges Dusseuil) 1900-1902: Georges Dusseuil [1848-1926], Paris France 1902-1903: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, May 6, 1902, acquired from Georges Dusseuil) 1903: (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, April 29, 1903, sold to Olivier Sainsere) 1903–?: Olivier Sainsere [1852-1923], Paris, France by 1923: by descent to his daughter, Jeanne (Sainsère) Richet [1883–1972], Paris, France by 1972: by descent to her daughter, Jacqueline (Richet) Souchère [1908–1984], Paris, France by 1984: by descent to her daughter, Jeanne (Souchère) Gelin, Paris, France before 2002: Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris, France 2002: (Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) 2002–2020: 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
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); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022). 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
- 1899
- Medium
- oil on board
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 29.8 x 32.4 x 2.9 cm (11 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.118
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