Art, literature & history
The Dressmaker
1895
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Medium
- color lithograph
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1941.538
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Édouard Vuillard. The Dressmaker. Édouard Vuillard; The Cleveland Museum of Art; Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: The Cleveland Museum of Art
About this artwork
The Dressmaker — Édouard Vuillard. 1895.
Medium: color lithograph. Dimensions: Sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.).
Collection record: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. Museum connection according to this source; current display unverified.
In this lithograph of his sister, Marie, at work, Vuillard contrasts the various textures of the textiles. Light seems to dissolve the gauzy curtains and Marie’s ruffled bodice, while the bolts of fabric to her right are solid and flattened.
Source: official collection record. Metadata selected and normalized by Artline from the source export, accessed 10 September 2026; no museum endorsement. Reproduction rights are separate.
Location checked Sep 10, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.