Cleveland Museum of Art
Woman Ironing
Édouard VuillardLinkedCulture matchlcp-93b93d26d1f2
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- oil on board
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 83373
This spare painting depicts a woman ironing a garment, while a sliver of light illuminates the side of her face and the cup held in her left hand. The subject belongs to a series of paintings of women ironing or sewing inspired by Édouard Vuillard’s close observation of his mother and sister making corsets and dresses in their crowded Parisian apartment. In 1888, Vuillard wrote in his journal: "A form or a color exists only in relation to another. Form does not exist on its own. We can only conceive of the relations."
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- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Provenance
- Alfred Athis Natanson [1873-1932], Paris France | passed to his daughter, Annette Charbonnier [1901–2002], Paris, France | passed to her son, Jean Philippe Charbonnier [1921–2004], Paris, France | 2013: (Galerie Hopkins, Paris, France, April 26, 2013, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) | 2013–2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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