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Collection Online as of March 22, 2024

Across the Fields

Across the Fields

1899
(French, 1868–1940)
(French, 1858–1936)
(French, 1867–1939)
Catalogue raisonné: Roger-Marx 34
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

On August 31, 1890, Vuillard wrote in his journal to “conceive of a picture really as a series of harmonies.”

Description

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.
  • ?-1951
    (William H. Schab Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    1951-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004).
  • {{cite web|title=Across the Fields|url=false|author=Edouard Vuillard, Auguste Clot, Ambroise Vollard|year=1899|access-date=22 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1951.65.4