Breakfast, 1894

East Building, Ground Level — Gallery 103-C

Medium

oil on cardboard

Dimensions

overall: 26.9 x 22.9 cm (10 9/16 x 9 in.)

framed: 43.1 x 39.3 x 6.9 cm (16 15/16 x 15 1/2 x 2 11/16 in.)

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.97

Artists / Makers

Edouard Vuillard (artist) French, 1868 - 1940

Image Use

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Inscription

lower left: E Vuillard 94

Provenance

(Valentine Dudensing Gallery, New York); (Dudensing sale, American Art Association, New York 24 March 1932, no. 26). Capt. Richard Peto, Isle of Wight; sold 1944 to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, Glasgow, and London); by whom sold 1945 to Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.[2]

[1]Acquisition from Peto and sale to Molyneux documented in a letter dated 9 December 1977 from Alex Reid & Lefèvre, in NGA curatorial files.

[2]Provenance according to NGA curatorial records and the Ailsa Mellon Bruce notebook now in NGA Gallery Archives.

Associated Names

American Art Association
Bruce, Ailsa Mellon, Mrs.
Molyneux, Edward H., Captain
Peto, Richard
Reid & Lefèvre, Ltd, Alex
Valentine Gallery

Exhibition History

1931: An Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by the Masters of Post-Impressionism, The City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1931, no. 42, as The Artist's Mother.

1952: French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist.

1966: French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 178, repro

1989: The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; The Phillips Collection, Washington; The Brooklyn Museum, 1989-1990, no. 67, repro.

Bibliography

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 372, repro.

1978: Small French Paintings from the Bequest of Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 106, repro. (continuing exhibition beginning in 1978).

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 432, repro.

2003: Salomon, Antoine, and Guy Cogeval. Vuillard, The Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. 3 vols. Milan and Paris, 2003: 1:no. IV-150, repro., as Madame Vuillard at Table.