Edouard Vuillard
Madame Hessel at Home

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Artist Edouard Vuillard(French, 1868–1940)French, 1868–1940

CultureFrench

Titles

Madame Hessel at Home

Datec. 1908

PlaceParis, France

MediumOil on board

Dimensions28 × 27 in. (71.1 × 68.6 cm)

Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, gift of Audrey Jones Beck

Object number98.311

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

225 Beck Galleries

Exposé

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Department

European Art, Beck Collection

Special Collections

Object Type

PAINTING

ProvenanceHillman Periodicals, New York; Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York; [Sale, Sotheby’s, London, April 29, 1964]; Mr. John A. and Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, Houston, 1964; gift to the MFAH from Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, 1998.

Exhibition HistoryEXHIBITED: New York / Cleveland: The Museum of Modern Art / The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Édouard Vuillard", 1954, p. 62.
EXHIBITED: Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, "The Collection of John A. and Audrey Jones Beck", 1974, pp. 100-101.

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Inscription: Stamp used is the artist's distinctive mark incorporating his initials so that the vertical lines of the T and the L are also either the vertical lines for a letter H or are connected by a hyphen. The entire device is surrounded by a circle.:

Signed, upper right, recto: "E Vuillard"

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