Interior with a Screen (c. 1893): Art, History and Details

Interior with a Screen (c. 1893) 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:

During the 1890s, when Édouard Vuillard made this print, his work focused on intimate domestic scenes. Here, the artist depicted the apartment that he shared with his mother and sister, who worked as seamstresses from home. Although the women are seen going about their daily activities, Vuillard used patterning and scale to suggest a subtle sense of unease and make the everyday seem unfamiliar.

Object facts

• Title: Interior with a Screen
• Date: c. 1893
• Creator attribution: Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
• Culture: France, late 19th - 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: lithograph on buff wove paper
• Dimensions: Image: 25 x 31 cm (9 13/16 x 12 3/16 in.); Sheet: 27.7 x 38.1 cm (10 7/8 x 15 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 2020.159

A detail from the museum

This print is one of several published by the prestigious art dealer Ambroise Vollard, who became a supporter of Édouard Vuillard's work during the 1890s.

Collection credit

Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift

Further reading listed by the museum

• Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Interior Dramas.’” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 40-93. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
• Groom, Gloria. "Edouard Vuillard." In The Keithley Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art, edited by Heather Lemonedes Brown, 76-101. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 2022.

View the collection record

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