The Dressmaker (1895): Art, History and Details

The Dressmaker (1895) 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 lithograph of his sister, Marie, at work, Vuillard contrasts the various textures of the textiles. Light seems to dissolve the gauzy curtains and Marie’s ruffled bodice, while the bolts of fabric to her right are solid and flattened.

Object facts

• Title: The Dressmaker
• Date: 1895
• Creator attribution: Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
• Culture: France, 19th-20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Sheet: 32.5 x 25 cm (12 13/16 x 9 13/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1941.538

Collection credit

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection

Further reading listed by the museum

• Catalogue of an exhibition of the art of lithography: commemorating the sesquicentennial of its invention, 1798-1948. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, November 11, 1948-January 2, 1949. Published as: La Couturière.
• 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.

View the collection record

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