Dinner, lighting effect
À propos du tableau
Le Dîner, effet de lampe est un tableau réalisé par le peintre suisse Félix Vallotton en 1899. Cette huile sur carton marouflée sur bois est une scène de genre représentant un dîner familial autour d'une table ronde, la personne au premier plan, de dos, n'apparaissant que comme une silhouette à contre-jour. Elle est conservée au musée d'Orsay, à Paris.
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- RF 1977 349
Pendant ce temps, chez Félix Edouard Vallotton
La vie entière1893–1897
Woodcuts for La Revue Blanche; the Natansons' patronage
His woodcuts brought Vallotton clients and financial security: he illustrated leading French periodicals, including La Revue Blanche, and foreign ones such as The Chap-Book of Chicago, and cut covers for theatre programmes and book illustrations. Thadée Natanson, publisher of La Revue Blanche, and his wife Misia became his patrons and introduced him to the Paris avant-garde elite — Mallarmé, Proust, Satie and Debussy.
23 January 1898
On Dreyfus's side
At the height of the Dreyfus affair Vallotton passionately defended the falsely accused officer; his series of satirical woodcuts, including “The Age of the Newspaper”, appeared on the front page of Le Cri de Paris. The affair divided the Nabis and was one reason the group had drifted apart by 1900.
1899
Married: Gabrielle Bernheim
1899
After the wedding, a flat by the Gare Saint-Lazare
His wife, Gabrielle Rodrigues-Henriques — a widow and the daughter of the dealer Alexandre Bernheim, founder of the Galerie Bernheim-Jeune — brought three children from her first marriage into the household. After a brief honeymoon in Switzerland the couple moved into a large flat near the Gare Saint-Lazare; the marriage brought Vallotton financial security.
1900
Becomes a French citizen
The Swiss-born Vallotton was naturalised as a French citizen.
