Edouard Vuillard
Madame Hessel Seated beneath a Lamp

Madame Hessel Seated beneath a Lamp

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Madame Hessel Seated beneath a Lamp
ArtistFrench, 1868–1940
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Madame Hessel Seated beneath a Lamp
Datec. 1905
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
On view

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Department
European Art, Beck Collection
Special Collections
Object Type
ProvenanceHillman Periodicals, New York (Alex Hillman Family Foundation, New York) at least by January 1954 [1] [2] ; [sale, Sotheby’s, London, “Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture,” April 29, 1964, lot 32 as “Femme assise devant une lampe,” illus.] [3]; Mr. John A. and Mrs. Audrey Jones Beck, Houston, 1964 [4] ; given to MFAH, 1998.

[1] An American magazine and comic book publishing company founded in 1938 by Alex L. Hillman.

[2] The work is listed in the cited 1954 traveling exhibition as “Woman seated in a Room, 1899” and owned by “Hillman Periodicals, Inc., New York.” Op. cit., pp. 62 (illus.), 102.

[3] One of three works purchased by the Becks at this sale: [lot 32-Vuillard “Femme assise devant une lampe”, lot 43 Sunyer’s pastel “La Toilette,” which was erroneously attributed to Picasso in the catalogue, and lot 116 Rouault’s “Pierrot.” Two of these works were later gifted to the MFAH. The Vuillard is listed as the having been the property of “Hillman Periodicals, Inc., New York,” without indication of ownership dates.

[4] No additional provenance information is recorded in Salomon, Antoine and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, (Milano: Skira Editore and Paris: Wildenstein Institute, 2003), vol. 2, cat. no. VII-344, p. 711.

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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