ÉDOUARD VUILLARD | MADAME VUILLARD LISANT LE JOURNAL
Property from the Collection of Ambassador and Mrs. Felix Rohatyn
ÉDOUARD VUILLARD
1868 - 1940
MADAME VUILLARD LISANT LE JOURNAL
Signed E Vuillard and dated 17 (lower right)
Distemper on paper mounted on cradled panel
34 by 28 in.
86.3 by 71.1 cm
Painted in 1912 and reworked in 1917.
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Bernheim Jeune, Paris (acquired from the artist on April 12, 1912)
Alphonse Kahn, Germaine-en-Laye (acquired from the above by exchange on April 13, 1912)
Jos Hessel, Paris (acquired from the above in 1917)
Mr. & Mrs. Charles W. Engelhard, Far Hills, New Jersey (acquired by 1964)
A wedding gift from the above in 1978
Antoine Salomon & Guy Cogeval, Vuillard: The Inexhaustible Glance, Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels, vol. II, Milan, 2003, no. IX-33, illustrated p. 1047
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Edouard Vuillard, 1912, no. 35
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Vuillard, 1964, no. 52, illustrated in the catalogue (dated 1917)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, 1972, no. 71, illustrated in the catalogue