Cleveland Museum of Art
Orchard
Édouard VuillardLinkedCulture matchlcp-93b93d26d1f2
- Date
- 1897
- Medium
- oil on board
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 85861
The organic strokes that comprise Vuillard’s trees contrast with the linear divisions of agricultural land. The imagery is reminiscent of a passage written by the artist’s muse, Misia Natanson: “Solemn and dreamy, Vuillard led me along the river, past high silver birch trees. . . . He slowly moved through the yellowed grass. . . . Our silhouettes were just shadows against a pale sky.” Fellow artist Maurice Denis noted in his journal that Vuillard paid little attention to color theory. In this painting, Vuillard used several colors that are next to each other on the color wheel such as orange, yellow, and green rather than pairing complementary colors.
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- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Provenance
- by 1973–at least 2003: (Galerie Paul Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland) | (Galerie Kornfeld, Bern Switzerland, June 18, 2004, lot 150, sold to a private collector) | (sold at Sotheby's, New York, NY, May 30, 2014, lot 11) | 2014: (Galerie Berès, Paris, France, at the New York Art Fair, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) | 2014–2020: 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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