Cleveland Museum of Art

Reclining Male Nude (verso)

Edouard Vuillard

Date

c. 1887–89

Medium

Black chalk

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Drawings

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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 probably created this drawing while he was a student at Paris's Académie Julian, where he met the other artists who would become the Nabis.

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