Art, literature & historyVuillard's Room at the Château des Clayes
Édouard Vuillard · c. 1932
Édouard Vuillard: 1868–1940
Other names (4)
Edouard Vuilliard, e. vuillard, jean edouard vuillard, Vuillard
Biography
Jean-Édouard Vuillard (French: [ʒɑ̃ edwaʁ vɥijaʁ]; 11 November 1868 – 21 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designed plates and stained glass.
After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, Vuillard adopted a more realistic style, approaching landscapes and interiors with greater detail and vivid colors. In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted portraits of figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings.
Vuillard was influenced by Paul Gauguin, among other post-impressionist painters.
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Influenced by
- Jean-Léon Gérômeeditorial inference
Evidence
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Édouard Vuillard. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art57 recorded works
- Musée d’Orsay33 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art29 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art23 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago16 recorded works
- L’Annonciade, musée d’art moderne de Saint-Tropez — Saint-Tropez6 recorded works
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris6 recorded works
- Musée d'art moderne de Paris4 recorded works
- Museum of Modern Art4 recorded works
- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts4 recorded works
- musée des beaux-arts — Lille3 recorded works
- musée d'Art Moderne — Troyes2 recorded works
- musée départemental Maurice Denis — Saint-Germain-en-Laye2 recorded works
- Tate2 recorded works
- Dallas Museum of Art1 recorded work
- Galleria d'Arte Moderna1 recorded work
- Minneapolis Institute of Art1 recorded work
- MUDO - musée de l'Oise — Beauvais1 recorded work
- MuMa - Musée d’art moderne André Malraux1 recorded work
- musée d'Allard — Montbrison1 recorded work
- musée départemental d'art ancien et contemporain — Epinal1 recorded work
- musée des Augustins — Toulouse1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts — Caen1 recorded work
- musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims — Reims1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie — Besançon1 recorded work
- musée des beaux-arts Jules Chéret — Nice1 recorded work
- musée d'Unterlinden — Colmar1 recorded work
- musée Mainssieux — Voiron1 recorded work
- musée Malraux — Le Havre1 recorded work
- musée — Pont-Aven1 recorded work
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- National Gallery of Art
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- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Tate Collection metadata (October 2014 snapshot)
- musée d'Orsay — Paris
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Expanded artwork research — official museum evidence
- Pantheon 2025 — Datawheel (CC BY-SA 4.0)