Young Woman Trying on a Hat (Primary Title)
jeune feeme essayant un chapeau (Translation)
Édouard Vuillard, French, 1868 - 1940 (Artist)
Vuillard’s drawing of a woman trying on a hat relates to the artistic subject of millinery shops made popular by Edgar Degas (whose At the Milliner is also in the Mellon collection). Vuillard draws on additional inspirations by showing the woman by an open window, harkening back to the Dutch luminist tradition typical of such artists as Jan Vermeer.
signed, lower left: "E. Vuillard"
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, Vuillard The Inexhaustible Glance (Milan: Skira Editore S.p.A. in association with Wildenstein Institute, Paris, 2003.) p. 1083, p. IX-117 [as Young Model Adjusting her Hat].
2013: "Corot to Cezanne: French Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon", The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia, January 25, 2013-June 2, 2013.
2011: "Corot to Cezanne: French Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon", VMFA, September 11, 2010-January 2, 2011.
1966: “French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 17-May 1, 1966.
2011: "Corot to Cezanne: French Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon", VMFA, September 11, 2010-January 2, 2011.
1966: “French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., March 17-May 1, 1966.
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