Edouard VuillardFrench, 1868–1940The Park
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Where is “The Park” now? Collection: The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Not on view at present. Checked September 22, 2026.
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- 600.1959
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In the life of Edouard Vuillard
The whole life1886–1927 · Workplace
Paris
early 1890s
The Natanson brothers and La Revue Blanche
Through his theatre work he meets Alexandre and Thadée Natanson, founders of the cultural review La Revue Blanche, where his graphics appear alongside work by Bonnard, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vallotton; the brothers become his important patrons. Other accounts say they had known each other since the Lycée Condorcet.
1892
First decorative commission: panels for the Desmarais house
On a commission for the Natanson brothers he paints six panels above the doors of the Desmarais family’s salon, his first “apartment frescoes”. It is the first of eight decorative cycles made between 1892 and 1899, some thirty panels in all.
1900
The Nabis part ways and Vuillard’s manner changes
After their exhibition of 1900 the Nabis go their separate ways; Vuillard abandons the close, dark interiors, paints more outdoors in natural light and gradually returns to naturalism, with lighter, deeper interiors and clearer faces.
1900
Meets Lucy Hessel
He meets Lucy Hessel, the wife of a Swiss art dealer, who becomes his new muse: each year she travels with him to Normandy from July to September, advises him, and stays with him until the end of his life despite many rivals and dramatic scenes.
November 1908
Solo exhibition at the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune
His second large personal exhibition presents many of his new landscapes; one anti-modernist critic praises him for his protest against systematic deformations.
