edouard vuillard

Jean-Édouard Vuillard (November 11, 1868 - June 21, 1940) was a French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis.

Vuillard was born in Cuiseaux in Saône-et-Loire and was brought up in Paris in modest circumstances. He attended the Lycée Condorcet where his contemporaries included musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Véber and painter Maurice Denis. In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycée Condorcet and joined his closest friend Ker-Xavier Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart (1840-1926). There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training.

Vuillard began to frequent the Louvre and was soon determined to build an artistic career. In doing so, Vuillard broke with the family tradition of a career in the army. Living with his mother, a dressmaker, until the age of sixty, Vuillard was very familiar with interior and domestic spaces. Much of his art reflected this influence, largely decorative and often depicting very intricate patterns.

Vuillard died in La Baule in 1940.

Works include

• Self Portrait (1892)
• Woman in Blue With Child (Mother and Child)
• Woman Sweeping (1892)
• Mother and Sister of the Artist (1893)
• The Yellow Curtain (1893)
• Married Life (1894)