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The Album

1895
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 823
In 1894–95, Thadée and Misia Natanson commissioned from Vuillard a series of five decorative panels known collectively as The Album. The unusual character of these works matched that of the Natansons' Paris apartment, a large open space adjoined by several small alcove areas. Its unconventional decor reflected Misia's taste, which was inspired by the English Arts and Crafts movement. The apartment often served as an alternative office for Thadée's lively avant-garde journal, La Revue blanche. Among the contributors to this influential publication were Claude Debussy, Léon Blum, Stéphane Mallarmé, and André Gide. The evocative Symbolist qualities of Mallarmé's poetry and Debussy's music find echoes in Vuillard's five panels, which take their name from this painting.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: The Album
  • Artist: Edouard Vuillard (French, Cuiseaux 1868–1940 La Baule)
  • Date: 1895
  • Medium: Oil on canvas
  • Dimensions: 26 3/4 × 80 1/2 in. (67.9 × 204.5 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Gift of Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, 2000, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
  • Object Number: 2000.93.2
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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Portrait of Theo Van Rysselberghe, Edouard Vuillard French, Etching; definitive state
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Lisez la Revue Blanche, Edouard Vuillard French, Lithograph
Lisez la Revue Blanche
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An Enemy of the People, Program for Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, November 1893, Edouard Vuillard French, Lithograph
An Enemy of the People, Program for Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, November 1893
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1893
Rosmersholm, Program from Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, October 1893, Edouard Vuillard French, Lithograph; only state
Rosmersholm, Program from Théâtre de l'Oeuvre, October 1893
Edouard Vuillard
1893
Project for a Print Album Cover, Edouard Vuillard French, Lithograph; second state of three
Project for a Print Album Cover
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