The Avenue (1899): Art, History and Details

The Avenue (1899) 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:

In this small view of a Parisian avenue, city dwellers of various classes coexist, as a fashionably dressed woman is about to cross paths with a man carrying a heavy burden on his shoulders. The city street provides a microcosm of the capital.

Object facts

• Title: The Avenue
• Date: 1899
• Creator attribution: Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 33.2 x 45 cm (13 1/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1951.65.3

A detail from the museum

Vuillard sought assistance from master printer Auguste Clot to tackle the technical difficulty of using many colors in a single print.

Collection credit

Gift of the Hanna Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Brown, Heather Lemonedes. “The Nabi City.” In Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 222-261. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.