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Édouard Vuillard — Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens")
Édouard Vuillard

Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens")

1894

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.

Medium
distemper on fabric
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Édouard Vuillard, Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens"), 1894

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.

Medium
distemper on fabric
Year
1894
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Cleveland Museum of Art