
Art Institute of Chicago
Child Playing: Annette Roussel in Front of a Wooden Chair
Édouard Jean Vuillard · c. 1900
Provenance
Ownership history
- Bought from the artist by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris for 500 francs on November 29, 1900 [see inscription on reverse and Bernheim-Jeune stock no. 11140, this and the following information according to Salomon and Congeval 2003]; sold to Georges Feydeau, Paris for 1,000 francs on May 13, 1901. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, c. 1902 [stock no. 12307, see inscription on reverse]. Gaston Bernheim de Villers, Paris. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, April 20, 1906 [stock no. 14935, see label on reverse]. Baron Bruno Caccamisi, Paris. Mme Blanche Marchesi, Paris. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris by 1924; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago, 1924 [see receipt no. 1754, Registrar office, copy in curatorial file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Brussels, La Libre Esthetique, Huitième exposition de La Libre Esthétique, March 1-31, 1901, cat. 525.
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute, Twenty-Eighth International Exhibition of Painting, October–December 1929, cat. 144.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Living Artists, November 1931-March 1932, no cat.
- Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1933, cat. 718 (ill.).
- Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-November 1, 1934, cat. 288.
- Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, December 15, 1938-January 15, 1939, cat. 36.
- Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, Paintings by Edouard Vuillard, January 22-February 22, 1939, cat. 8.
- Boston, Institute of Modern Art, La Vie Française, October 6-November 11, 1944.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bonnard-Vuillard, January 26-March 14, 1954, p. 74 (ill); traveled to New York, The Museum of Modern Art, April 6-June 6, 1954.
- Munich, Haus der Kunst, Edouard Vuillard-K. X. Roussel, March 15-May 12, 1968, cat. 57; traveled to Paris, France, Galeries du Jeu de Paume et de l’Orangerie, May 28-October 30, 1968, cat. 101.
- Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vuillard, September 10-October 24, 1971, no cat. no., pl. 10; traveled to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, November 18, 1971-January 2, 1972 and Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago, January 29-March 13, 1972.
- Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, November 18- April 28, 1989, cat. 71 (ill.); traveled to Washington D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, February 17-April 29, 1990 and Brooklyn Museum of Art, May 18-July 30, 1990.
Literature
Published references
- Colour 5, November 1916, p. 119.
- Pennsylvania Museum of Art Bulletin 2, January 1932, p. 73.
- “The Rearrangement of the Painting Galleries,” The Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7, December 1933, p. 117 (ill).
- Andrew C. Ritchie, Edouard Vuillard, New York, MoMA, 1954, pp. 102, 74 (ill).
- Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of Picture Collection, Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, 1961, p. 478.
- Jacques Salomon, Vuillard, Paris, Gallimard-NRF, 1968, p. 92 (ill).
- John Russell, Vuillard, London, Thames and Hudson, 1971, pl. 10.
- Art in America, September 1971, p. 103.
- Anne Georges, Symbolisme et décor, Vuillard, 1888-1905, doctorate diss., Paris I, 1982, p. 152.
- Patricia Ciaffa, The portraits of Édouard Vuillard, Ph.D.Diss., Ann-Arbor, Columbia University, 1985, p. 183, fig. 70.
- Richard Brettell, Post-Impressionists, Chicago, the Art Institute of Art, 1987, pp. 86, 88 (ill.), 119.
- Jeanine Warnod, Vuillard, Paris, Flammarion, 1988, pp. 37, 54-55.
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