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The Cleveland Museum of Art
Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens")
Description
This painting is from a nine-panel decorative series showing children playing in two of Paris’s most spacious parks: the Tuileries Gardens and the Bois de Boulogne. It depicts a game of hide-and-seek in which a girl conceals herself behind a tree. The stillness of the women resting on green chairs at the right is countered by children running at the left. Rather than a realistic rendering of the subject, Édouard Vuillard arranged the composition in bands of colorful, decorative patterns so that the painting seems like a tapestry.
Provenance
Alexandre Natanson [1867-1936], Paris; (Natanson sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, May 16, 1929, lot 122, sold to Georges Bénard); Georges Bénard, Paris; (Bénard sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 9, 1933, lot 90, sold to Henri Blum); Henri Blum, Paris; (César de Hauke, New York, sold to Knoedler & Co.); (Knoedler & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Dimensions
214.2 × 96.3 cm
Movement / Period
Accession No
1953.212
Official Citations
Curatorial Affinity Stream
Continuing the Universe of Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
Modern European Painting and Sculpture • France, 19th century • Harmonious Works & Contemporaries
Continuous Discovery