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Women Meeting in the Shade
About the Artwork
Roussel was a founding member of the French avant-garde group known as the Nabis (prophets) and the brother-in-law of fellow member Édouard Vuillard. Roussel shared their fascination with Japanese prints and developed a style of radically simplified forms and strong, decorative color. His intimate views of daily life convey a mood of quiet feeling rather than focusing on narrative, storytelling content. This painting depicts a group of figures, presumably two women and four children, meeting in the shade of tall trees, while other figures walk along the grassy riverbank.
Provenance
Estate of Muriel Butkin
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Ker Xavier Roussel (French, 1867–1944)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 31.1 x 39.2 cm (12 1/4 x 15 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Muriel Butkin
- Accession no.
- 2022.434
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Open-access museum record · AT-00009943
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