Across the Fields

In this print, Edouard Vuillard used simplification of detail to suggest the sense of relaxation and freedom that he found in the landscape depicted. He used seemingly shapeless blots of color that remain recognizable as figures: the woman in a striped dress keeps a firm hold on her child, as though restraining him from running through the field, and a man in green turns and leans with the proper combination of intimacy and formality to engage with the couple behind him.

A horizontally oriented color lithograph depicts a landscape in muted green, blue, and purple. The lower half features a textured field where twelve small figures walk across the middle ground. At right, a tall, slender green tree stands near rounded foliage. Dominating the upper half, a large blue-gray mass resembles a textured mountain or cloud. Sketchy, layered marks create a soft, hazy effect across the scene, with a stray blue stroke top right.

Across the Fields

1899

Édouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1868–1940), (French, 1858–1936), (French, 1867–1939)

France, 19th century

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