Cleveland Museum of Art

The Hearth

Édouard Vuillard

Date

1899

Medium

color lithograph

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

Vuillard combines potent signifiers of homelife—the hearth and kitchen tools—that pay homage to the daily chores and comforts of the domestic world he shared with his mother. The strange perspective in which the chair looms above the viewer suggests a childlike viewpoint. Among the Nabis, Vuillard assumed the nickname le Nabi Zouave, as the color of his red beard was reminiscent of headdresses worn by the French North African regiment.

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