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The Cook

1899

Édouard Vuillard

(French, 1868–1940)
printer

Auguste Clot

(French, 1858–1936)
publisher

Ambroise Vollard

(French, 1867–1939)
France, 19th century
color lithograph
Sheet: 40.7 x 30 cm (16 x 11 13/16 in.)
Gift of the Hanna Fund 1951.65.12
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 42
Location: Not on view

Did You Know?

Despite living in close quarters, Vuillard’s mother was known to warmly host and cook for her son’s Nabi friends.

Description

The artist’s mother was known for her hospitality toward her son’s Nabi friends, who occasionally dined in the Vuillards’ apartment. Madame Vuillard reigned in the kitchen, but here,the artist depicts her as diminutive and frozen, part of the still life of objects and patterns of the room.
  • ?-1951
    (William H. Schab Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    1951-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • 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. 51; Reproduced: P. 81, no. 27
  • 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).
    Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
    Human Rights. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 5, 1963-January 12, 1964).
  • {{cite web|title=The Cook|url=false|author=Édouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard|year=1899|access-date=21 December 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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