The Pastry Shop (1899): Art, History and Details

The Pastry Shop (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:

Vuillard’s subject of Parisians enjoying refreshments out-of-doors is echoed in his friend Bonnard’s Café Terrace, on view nearby. Both artists treat public settings with the same enveloping closeness of their interiors.

Object facts

• Title: The Pastry Shop
• Date: 1899
• Creator attribution: Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Dimensions: Image: 35.1 x 27.5 cm (13 13/16 x 10 13/16 in.); Sheet: 44.3 x 36 cm (17 7/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1951.65.11

A detail from the museum

In 1897, Vuillard purchased a Kodak Brownie that allowed him to take intimate snapshots of family and friends as well as create reference photographs for his paintings and prints.

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.