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Source Description
The artist’s mother was known for her hospitality toward her son’s Nabi friends, who occasionally dined in the Vuillards’ apartment. Madame Vuillard reigned in the kitchen, but here,the artist depicts her as diminutive and frozen, part of the still life of objects and patterns of the room.
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Document identity
localId
129165
label
The Cook
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obj
dtoType
print
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1
Source metadata
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129165
contentType
print
title
The Cook
description
The artist’s mother was known for her hospitality toward her son’s Nabi friends, who occasionally dined in the Vuillards’ apartment. Madame Vuillard reigned in the kitchen, but here,the artist depicts her as diminutive and frozen, part of the still life of objects and patterns of the room.
date
1899
rights
CC0
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q79909890
creators
1833
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291938
genreSpecific
Print
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1
source
import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 40.7 x 30 cm (16 x 11 13/16 in.)
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France, 19th century
accession
1951.65.12
Source extras
tec
color lithograph
tombstone
Landscapes and Interiors: The Cook, 1899. Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Color lithograph; sheet: 40.7 x 30 cm (16 x 11 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1951.65.12
series
Landscapes and Interiors
collection
PR - Lithograph
stateOfTheWork
II/II
formerAccessionNumbers
1951.76
didYouKnow
Despite living in close quarters, Vuillard’s mother was known to warmly host and cook for her son’s Nabi friends.
citations
citation
Chapin, Mary Weaver. “Interior Dramas.’” In <em>Private Lives: Home and Family in the Art of the Nabis, Paris, 1889-1900</em>. Mary Weaver Chapin and Heather Lemonedes Brown, 40-93. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2021.
page_number
Mentioned: P. 51; Reproduced: P. 81, no. 27
catalogueRaisonne
Roger-Marx 42
creditline
Gift of the Hanna Fund
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2026-05-29 06:39:53.044000
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129165
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Prints
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PR - Lithograph
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color lithograph
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male
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1
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0
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photo
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