Children's Games (1897): Art, History and Details

Children's Games (1897) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This enigmatic image portrays a mother attending to her child who is sprawled on the ground in a public park. The monumental size of the pair compared with other visitors to the park is characteristic of the artist’s manipulation of scale and perspective.

Object facts

• Title: Children's Games
• Date: 1897
• Creator attribution: Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Image: 26.1 x 44.4 cm (10 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43 x 57.5 cm (16 15/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1951.488

Collection credit

Dudley P. Allen Fund

View the collection record

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