Cleveland Museum of Art
In Front of the Mirror (recto); Reclining Male Nude (verso)
Édouard VuillardLinkedCulture matchlcp-93b93d26d1f2
- Date
- c. 1891–92 (recto); c. 1887–89 (verso)
- Medium
- pastel and charcoal on beige paper
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 311856
During the early 1890s, Édouard Vuillard repeatedly represented his mother and older sister, Marie, in domestic settings. This drawing relates to a pastel and painting, all of which show Marie standing before a mirror, raising her arms as if to adjust her hairstyle. A charcoal study of a nude male appears on the verso, suggesting that the artist may have reused the sheet. Vuillard created this portrait of his sister Marie while she was living at home and working with their mother at her corset- and dressmaking business.
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- Credit line
- Bequest of William Kelly Simpson
- Provenance
- 1892-1940: studio of the artist | 1940: family of the artist | probably 1940-1957: (Sam Salz, New York) | 1957-1990: private collection | 1990: (sale, November 14, 1990, Sotheby’s, New York, no. 110, sold to William Kelly Simpson) | 1990-2018: William Kelly Simpson [1928–2017], Katonah, NY, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2018-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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