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Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother)

Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother)

1899
(French, 1868–1940)
Unframed: 29.8 x 32.4 x 2.9 cm (11 3/4 x 12 3/4 x 1 1/8 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

Vuillard began visiting his sister's home in the country more frequently and for extended periods of time after the birth of Annette, who was one year old at the time of this painting.

Description

Vuillard depicted close family members in this intimate domestic scene. The woman at the lower right corner of the composition is his mother, Marie Vuillard. She is tending to a her grandchild, Annette Roussel, the daughter of Vuillard’s sister and her husband, Ker-Xavier Roussel, who was also an artist. The two figures are in the apartment that Vuillard shared with his mother in Paris. Vuillard adopted a particularly steep angle of view in this painting, looking down upon the interaction of the figures. The viewer assumes the position of the artist himself, looking over his mother’s shoulder as she lovingly feeds the baby.
  • 1900
    Collection of the Artist
    1900
    (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, March 28, 1900, acquired from the artist)
    1900
    (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, November 26, 1900, sold to Georges Dusseuil)
    1900-1902
    Georges Dusseuil [1848-1926], Paris France
    1902-1903
    (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, May 6, 1902, acquired from Georges Dusseuil)
    1903
    (Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France, April 29, 1903, sold to Olivier Sainsere)
    1903–?
    Olivier Sainsere [1852-1923], Paris, France
    by 1923
    by descent to his daughter, Jeanne (Sainsère) Richet [1883–1972], Paris, France
    by 1972
    by descent to her daughter, Jacqueline (Richet) Souchère [1908–1984], Paris, France
    by 1984
    by descent to her daughter, Jeanne (Souchère) Gelin, Paris, France
    before 2002
    Galerie Cazeau-Béraudière, Paris, France
    2002
    (Galerie Hopkins-Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley)
    2002–2020
    Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    2020–
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Solomon, Antoine, Guy Cogeval, and Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan, Italy: Skira, 2003. Mentioned and Reproduced: Vol. II, P. 568-569, no. VII-54
    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. 43; Reproduced: P. 65, no. 8
    Œuvres de Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Ibels, Aristide Maillol, Hermann Paul, Ranson, Roussel, Serusier, Vallotton, Vuillard: catalogue. Paris: MM. Bernheim Jeune et fils, 1900. Mentioned: Vuillard, no. 8
  • Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
    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).
    Exposition d’oeuvres de Vuillard de 1890 à 1910. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (January 31–February 25, 1938).
    Oeuvres de Bonnard, Maurice Denis, Ibels, Aristide Maillol, Hermann-Paul, Ranson, Roussel, Serusier, Vallotoon, Vuillard. Galerie Bernheim Jeune, Paris, France (April 2-22, 1900).
  • {{cite web|title=Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother)|url=false|author=Edouard Vuillard|year=1899|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2020.118