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In Front of the Mirror (recto)

In Front of the Mirror (recto)

c. 1891–92
(French, 1868–1940)
France, 19th century
pastel
Sheet: 34.8 x 27.2 cm (13 11/16 x 10 11/16 in.)
Bequest of William Kelly Simpson 2018.77.a
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Vuillard created this portrait of his sister Marie while she was living at home and working with their mother at her corset- and dressmaking business.

Description

During the early 1890s, Édouard Vuillard repeatedly represented his mother and older sister, Marie, in domestic settings. This drawing relates to a pastel and painting, all of which show Marie standing before a mirror, raising her arms as if to adjust her hairstyle. A charcoal study of a nude male appears on the verso, suggesting that the artist may have reused the sheet.
  • Family of the artist (L. 2497b)
    Sam Salz, New York, NY
    October 15, 1957
    sold to anonymous, October 15, 1957
    November 14, 1990
    Sotheby's, New York, NY
    1990-2018
    William Kelly Simpson, Katonah, NY
    June 4, 2018
    the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-April 30, 2023).
  • {{cite web|title=In Front of the Mirror (recto)|url=false|author=Edouard Vuillard|year=c. 1891–92|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2018.77.a