Edouard Vuillard, 'The Mantelpiece (La Cheminée)', 1905
Full title | The Mantelpiece (La Cheminée) |
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Artist | Edouard Vuillard |
Artist dates | 1868 - 1940 |
Date made | 1905 |
Medium and support | oil on board |
Dimensions | 51.4 × 77.5 cm |
Inscription summary | Signed; Dated |
Acquisition credit | Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin. |
Inventory number | NG3271 |
Location | On loan: Long Loan to The Hugh Lane (2019 - 2026) (Group B), Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland |
Collection | Main Collection |
This picture – a combination of interior scene and still-life painting – shows Vuillard’s room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. His friends Jos and Lucy Hessel rented the house for the summers of 1905, 1906 and 1907.
A posy of wild flowers on the marble mantelpiece sits alongside a number of bottles, artworks tucked behind them. Another picture hangs on the wall, far above the painting rags that are hanging up to dry. The richly decorated walls compete with the still-life arrangement on the mantelpiece. Despite this interplay between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, the foreshortened mantelpiece, which appears to jut out of the picture, marks the artist’s move to a more naturalistic approach.
On the reverse of the painting there is a rapid sketch of three figures – a woman and two children – on a beach. The woman crouches down to pet one of the two dogs sat beside her.
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