The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of December 23, 2025

The Dressmaker

1895

Édouard Vuillard

(French, 1868–1940)
France, 19th-20th century
color lithograph
Sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection 1941.538
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 13
Location: Not on view

Description

In this lithograph of his sister, Marie, at work, Vuillard contrasts the various textures of the textiles. Light seems to dissolve the gauzy curtains and Marie’s ruffled bodice, while the bolts of fabric to her right are solid and flattened.
  • Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: La Couturière. Mentioned: p. 69 archive.org
    Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Interior Dramas.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 40-93. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021. Mentioned: P. 47; Reproduced: P. 66, no. 9
  • Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889–1900. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (co-organizer) (July 1-September 19, 2021); Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR (co-organizer) (October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022).
  • {{cite web|title=The Dressmaker|url=false|author=Édouard Vuillard|year=1895|access-date=23 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1941.538