Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011248In Front of the Mirror (recto)
About the Artwork
During the early 1890s, Édouard Vuillard repeatedly represented his mother and older sister, Marie, in domestic settings. This drawing relates to a pastel and painting, all of which show Marie standing before a mirror, raising her arms as if to adjust her hairstyle. A charcoal study of a nude male appears on the verso, suggesting that the artist may have reused the sheet.
Inscriptions
recto, lower left, stamped in purple ink: E Vuillard
Provenance
Family of the artist (L. 2497b) Sam Salz, New York, NY October 15, 1957: sold to anonymous, October 15, 1957 November 14, 1990: Sotheby's, New York, NY 1990-2018: William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY June 4, 2018: the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 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
- c. 1891–92
- Medium
- pastel
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
- Accession no.
- 2018.77.a
More by Édouard Vuillard in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011248
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