Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940)

Femme assise à la blouse bleue et blanche

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Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940)
Femme assise à la blouse bleue et blanche
with the Haviland & Co (Limoges) mark (underneath)
glazed ceramic plate
Diameter: 8 1/2 in. (21.5 cm.)
Executed in 1895 as part of a set of 96 plates in wedding service commissioned by Jean Schopfer

Jean Schopfer, by whom commissioned in 1895.
Galerie Druet, Paris, possibly by 1938.
Acquired from the above in 1960, and thence by descent to the present owner.

J. Salomon, Auprès de Vuillard, Paris, 1953, p. 33.
C. Frèches-Thory & A. Terrasse, Les Nabis, Paris, 1990, pp. 191-192.
G. Groom, Edouard Vuillard, Painter-Decorator, Patrons and Projects, 1892-1912, New Haven & London, 1993, pp. 71, 74-76, 99, 100.
Exh. cat., Beyond the Easel, Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis and Roussel, 1890-1930, New Haven & London, 2001, p. 45 (illustrated fig. 10).
A. Salomon & G. Cogeval, Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. I, Milan, 2003, p. 451 (illustrated).
A. Leduc Beaulieu, 'An Art Nouveau experiment: Edouard Vuillard's Porcelain Wedding Service for Jean Schopfer, 1895', in Studies in the Decorative Arts, vol. XIII, no. 1, New York, Fall-Winter 2005-2006, pp. 72-90, fig. 1 (illustrated p. 74).

Paris, Maison de l'Art Nouveau (Siegfried Bing), Salon de l'Art Nouveau, December 1895 - January 1896.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, E. Vuillard, May - July 1938, no. 321.
Washington, National Gallery of Art, Édouard Vuillard, January - April 2003, no. 132; this exhibition later travelled to Montreal, Museum of Fine Arts; Paris, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais; and London, Royal Academy of Arts.

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This work will be included in the forthcoming supplement of the catalogue critique of paintings and drawings by Edouard Vuillard being prepared by the Archives Vuillard.

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