Woman in a Striped Dress (c. 1900): Art, History and Details

Woman in a Striped Dress (c. 1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Ker Xavier Roussel (French, 1867–1944); Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939).

The work and its context

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

Almost indistinguishable from the patterned landscape surrounding her, a woman in a striped dress strolls through a spring landscape. In this image, Ker Xavier Roussel explored a decorative abstraction that blended figure and ground into a field of shared color.

Object facts

• Title: Woman in a Striped Dress
• Date: c. 1900
• Creator attribution: Ker Xavier Roussel (French, 1867–1944); Ambroise Vollard (French, 1867–1939)
• Culture: France, 20th century
• Type: Print
• Technique: color lithograph
• Collection: PR - Lithograph
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1944.431

A detail from the museum

Ker Xavier Roussel married Marie Vuillard, the sister of painter and fellow Nabi artist Édouard Vuillard.

Collection credit

Gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

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: Landscape with Figure in a Striped Dress.

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.