
Art Institute of Chicago
The Dressing Room, Madame Hessel Reading at Amfreville
Édouard Jean Vuillard · 1906
Provenance
Ownership history
- Purchased from the artist by Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (stock no. 15701, as Le Cabinet de toilette), 18 Feb. 1907, 550 francs. Alexandre Natanson, Paris, 10 May 1907, 550 francs. Jos Hessel, Paris and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, (stock no. 20145, as Portrait de Mme Hessel), 13 Jan. 1914, 2,000 francs. Thomas Justice & Sons, Dundee (Great Britain), 13 Oct. 1919, part of a lot. Alexander Duncan, Carnoustie (Great Britain). Arthur Tooth & Sons, London. Knoedler, New York, 1927. C. W. Kraushaar Art Galleries, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Worcester, Chicago, 30 Apr. 1938. Gift to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1947.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard, December 15, 1938-January 15, 1939, no. 33.
- Washington, D.C., Phillips Memorial Gallery, Paintings by Edouard Vuillard, January 22-February 22, 1939, no. 16.
- New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, February 6-March 26, 1941.
- New York, The Jewish Museum, Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940. May 4- September 23, 2012.
Literature
Published references
- The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 478.
- El Mundo de los Museos, Instituto de Arte de Chicago (Madrid: 1967), pp. 12, 62 (ill.).
- Antoine Salomon and Guy Congeval, Edouard Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels vol. 2 (Milan, 2003), no. VIII-148 (ill.).
- Stephan Brown, "An Artist, His Patrons, and the Muses", Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890-1940, Exh, cat (The Jewish Museum, 2012), p. 52.
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