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Source Description
This print presents the type of domestic scene that Ker-Xavier Roussel and his Nabi colleagues favored during the 1890s. Artists in this circle used simplified forms and bold color to depict subject matter drawn from contemporary Paris, both domestic and public. Created in the year that Roussel married Marie, the sister of his close friend Édouard Vuillard, this lithograph may be a portrait of his new wife. The figure appears fully absorbed in her task, but also completely isolated from the outside world in starkly contrasting light and dark tones.
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Document identity
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676880
label
The Potato Peeler
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print
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Source metadata
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676880
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print
title
The Potato Peeler
description
This print presents the type of domestic scene that Ker-Xavier Roussel and his Nabi colleagues favored during the 1890s. Artists in this circle used simplified forms and bold color to depict subject matter drawn from contemporary Paris, both domestic and public. Created in the year that Roussel married Marie, the sister of his close friend Édouard Vuillard, this lithograph may be a portrait of his new wife. The figure appears fully absorbed in her task, but also completely isolated from the outside world in starkly contrasting light and dark tones.
date
1893
citation
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CC0
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CC0
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en
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29642
67382
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Print
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import
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Image: 19.1 x 15.6 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)
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France
accession
2024.57
Source extras
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lithograph on gray laid paper
tombstone
The Potato Peeler, 1893. Ker Xavier Roussel (French, 1867–1944), Edward Ancourt (French, 1841–1898?). Lithograph on gray laid paper; image: 19.1 x 15.6 cm (7 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 2024.57
collection
PR - Lithograph
didYouKnow
This print is the first of several in which Ker-Xavier Roussel collaborated with renowned master printmaker Edward Ancourt.
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Salomon 2
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Dudley P. Allen Fund
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2026-05-29 09:14:46.473000
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676880
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Prints
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PR - Lithograph
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lithograph on gray laid paper
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male
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