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Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods

Édouard Jean Vuillard · 1899

Provenance

Ownership history

Commissioned from the artist by Adam Natanson (died 1906) to decorate the library of his apartment at 85 rue Jouffroy, Paris, 1899 [see "Inventaire après le décès de M. Natanson," dated November 12, 1906, no. 68, copy in curatorial file]; transferred to Alfred Natanson's appartment at 92 boulevard Malesherbes, Paris in 1904; by descent to Adam's son, Thadée Natanson, Paris, 1906; his sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, June 13, 1908, lot 64; sold to Alexandre Natanson, Paris for 2, 600 francs; loaned to Léon Blum, Paris, from 1910 to 1929 [see Édouard Vuillard, Journal, April 18, 1910, II.4, fol. 21r, Institute de France]; Alexandre Natanson Sale, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, May 16, 1929, lot 127 (ill.); sold to Mme Bloch for Léon Blum (died 1950), Paris [see annotated catalogue at the Getty Research Institute and Salomon and Congeval 2003]; by descent to Robert Blum (died 1974), Paris, 1950. Knoedler and Co., New York [according to Salomon and Congeval 2003]. Reader’s Digest Association, Pleasantville, New York [according to Salomon and Congeval 2003]. Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 23, 1974, lot 216 (ill.); sold to John S. Samuels III, New York; Sale, Sotheby’s, New York, October 22, 1980, lot 60A (ill.); sold to Herman Shickman Gallery, New York [see New York Times 1981]; sold to the Art Institute, 1981.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Paris, Grand Palais, Salon d'automne, 2e exposition, October 15-November 15, 1904, cat. 1288.
Munich, Kunstsalon W. Zimmerman, March-April 15, 1908.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Le Décor de la vie de 1900 à 1925, 1937, cat. 201.
Paris, Museé des Arts Decoratifs, É. Vuillard, May- July 1938, cat. 69.
Basel, Kunsthalle, Édouard Vuillard, Charles Hug, March 26-May 1, 1949, cat. 230.
Paris, Museé National d’Art Moderne, Bonnard, Vuillard et les Nabis, June 8-October 2, 1955, cat. 221.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890-1930, February 25-May 16, 2001, cat. 41 (ill.), traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 26-September 8, 2001.
Washington, DC, National Gallery of Art, Edouard Vuillard, January 19-April 20, 2003, cat. 142 (ill.), traveled to Montreal, Musée de Beaux-Arts de Montreal, May 15, 2003-August 24, 2003 and Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, September 23, 2003-January 4, 2004 and Lodnon, Royal Academy of Arts, January 31-April 18, 2004.

Literature

Fritz von Ostini, “Die Frühjahrsausstellung der Münchener Secession,” Die Kunst 17 (1907-1908), p. 350 (ill.).
Achille Segard, Peintres d’aujourd’hui: les décorateurs vol. 2, Paris, Paul Ollendorff, 1914, pp. 253, 258-266, 321.
Claude Roger-Marx, Vuillard et son temps, Paris, Éd. des arts et métiers graphiques, 1946, pp. 138-139.
André Chastel, Vuillard, Paris, Floury, 1946, pp. 53, 115.
Claude Roger-Marx, Vuillard, Paris, Éd. des arts et métiers graphiques, pp. 15, 43, fig. 25.
Jacques Salomon, Auprès de Vuillard, Paris, La Palme, 1953, p. 36.
Annette Vaillant, “Livret de Famille ,” L’Oeil, December 1956, pp. 25, 30.
Jacques Hillairet, Dictionnaire historique des rues de Paris, Paris, Les éditions de minuit, 1963, pp. 159, 157.
Roseline Bacou, “Décors d’appartements au temps des Nabis,” Art de France 4, 1964, p. 196.
James Dugdale, “Vuillard, the decorator-I. First Phase: the 1890’s,” Apollo, February 1965, p. 99.
Félix Fénéon, Oeuvres plus que complétes vol. 1, Geneve, Droz, 1970, p. 261.
Annette Vaillant, Le Pain Polka, Paris, Mercure de France, 1974, pp. 41, 42, 141.

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