Interior with Paintings and a Pheasant

Edouard Vuillard

1928 · Tempera and pastel on canvas · Modern and Contemporary Art

The painting in the background of this work shows the daughter and grandson of collector David David-Weill at his country house in Mareil-le-Guyon. Supposedly Vuillard was working on the painting in his studio when David-Weill stopped by with a pheasant from a hunting expedition. Vuillard placed it before the unfinished canvas in progress and began to paint the present picture.

Artist

Edouard Vuillard

Date

1928

Medium

Tempera and pastel on canvas

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Robert Lehman, 1948