Edouard VuillardFrench, 1868–1940Square Berlioz
May one see it?
Unknown
Musée d'Orsay
Paris, France
The owner is known; whether it is on view today is not.
- In this state since
- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- AM 2632
In the catalog
Sources
- Wikidata
- Image: Musée d'Orsay — Sailko · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
Meanwhile, in the life of Edouard Vuillard
The whole life1886–1927 · Workplace
Paris
1911–1914
The Ballets Russes, Diaghilev and Isadora Duncan
Between 1911 and 1914 he attends performances of the Ballets Russes, dines with their director Sergei Diaghilev and with the American dancer Isadora Duncan, and frequents the Folies Bergère and the Moulin Rouge in their heyday.
1914
Mobilised at the outbreak of the First World War
After the outbreak of war in August 1914 he is briefly mobilised as a highway guard, soon released from duty, and returns to painting.
August 1917
Commission for a mural for the café Le Grand Teddy
Back in Paris, he receives a commission from the architect Francis Jourdain for a mural for the fashionable Paris café Le Grand Teddy; other accounts date the commission to 1918.
1917–1924
Summers at Vaucresson
From 1917 to 1924 he spends every summer at Vaucresson, in a house rented with his mother, and paints a series of landscapes of the area.
