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Series Title: Album des Peintres-Graveurs

Children's Games

1897

Édouard Vuillard

(French, 1868–1940)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
color lithograph
Measurements
Image: 26.1 x 44.4 cm (10 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43 x 57.5 cm (16 15/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Dudley P. Allen Fund 1951.488
Catalogue raisonné
Roger-Marx 29
State
III/III
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
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Description

This enigmatic image portrays a mother attending to her child who is sprawled on the ground in a public park. The monumental size of the pair compared with other visitors to the park is characteristic of the artist’s manipulation of scale and perspective.
A horizontally oriented color lithograph depicts a park using loose, scribbled lines. On the left, a large figure in a striped blue, white, and red garment bends over a child on a vibrant yellow field. A bright orange ball sits in the center foreground. Receding to the right, small figures in dark clothing gather under a pale sky. Faint yellow and blue lines sketch a distant bridge. A signature marks the bottom right.

Children's Games

1897

Édouard Vuillard

(French, 1868–1940)
France, 19th century

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