The Hearth
Édouard Vuillard
1899
- Medium
- color lithograph
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 45 x 36 cm (17 11/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
- Genre
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Styles
Tags
France, 19th century
About
Vuillard combines potent signifiers of homelife—the hearth and kitchen tools—that pay homage to the daily chores and comforts of the domestic world he shared with his mother. The strange perspective in which the chair looms above the viewer suggests a childlike viewpoint.
