Edouard Vuillard
The Avenue
1898
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Edouard Vuillard
The Avenue
1898
Physical Qualities
Color crayon and tusche lithograph, Sheet: 333 x 450 mm. (13 1/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
Image: 312 x 410 mm. (12 5/16 x 16 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Print Fund
Object Number
1952.86
Here Vuillard has produced a streetscape from an unusual
perspective—he has cropped the trees and buildings down to just
above the figures’ heads at his own eye level, producing a low but
broad view of the road ahead. The street quickly moves into the
distance, dotted with figures that are busy with their daily errands.
With the use of diagonal lines and parallel planes, the space is
divided into neat and orderly sections of light and dark.
(Bonnard and Vuillard, 2008)
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1952; purchased from Heinz Berggruen, Paris
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Peintre Graveur: 19th Century French Prints from the Collection," 7 September - 31 October, 1976.
Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, "The Color Revolution...," Sept. 9 - Oct. 29, 1978.
BMA (organized by Rutgers University Art Gallery), "The Color Revolution, Color Lithography in France 1890-1900," 10 November - 31 December 1978, cat. 190.
BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, "The Nabis and the Parisian Avante-Garde, 4 December 1988 - 14 Feburary 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Degas and the Little Dancer in Context," 4 October - 3 January 1999.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, "The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art 1854-1918," 19 February - 17 July 2011; traveled to McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, 5 October 2011 - 15 January 2012, cat no 194.
Rutgers University Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ, "The Color Revolution...," Sept. 9 - Oct. 29, 1978.
BMA (organized by Rutgers University Art Gallery), "The Color Revolution, Color Lithography in France 1890-1900," 10 November - 31 December 1978, cat. 190.
BMA, "Master Prints II: Daumier to Picasso," 25 October, 1983 - 15 January, 1984.
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, "The Nabis and the Parisian Avante-Garde, 4 December 1988 - 14 Feburary 1989.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Degas and the Little Dancer in Context," 4 October - 3 January 1999.
Susan Dackerman, BMA (only), "Toulouse-Lautrec: Master of the Moulin Rouge," February 15 - May 23, 2004.
Katy Rothkopf, BMA, "Bonnard & Vuillard," 23 April - 19 October 2008.
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, "The Orient Expressed: Japan's Influence on Western Art 1854-1918," 19 February - 17 July 2011; traveled to McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, 5 October 2011 - 15 January 2012, cat no 194.
Signed: 6
