Pastel on paper on board
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Laden Table
Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the Contemporary Art Society 1940
actions: postures and motions
adults
architecture
book - non-specific
boy
children
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
countries and continents
domestic
door
educational and scientific
features
France
French
furnishings
girl
individuals: female
individuals: male
interiors
living room
named individuals
nationality
objects
Paris, Rue de Calais 26
people
places
portraits
reading, writing, printed matter
Roussel, Annette
Roussel, Jacques
self-portraits
sitting
society
student
table
Vuillard
Vuillard, Edouard
window
woman
work and occupations
<p>This painting shows the drawing-room of the Paris house where Vuillard lived with his mother. The artist's niece stands at the table doing her lessons. Her brother is at the window, looking out. The silhouette of the artist's mother can be seen on the right, and Vuillard himself appears in the portrait on the wall. Although he frequently used friends or family as models, Vuillard said,;I don't make portraits. I paint people in their homes.</p><p><em>Gallery label, September 2004</em></p>
paper unique pastel board
19 October 2018 – 20 January 2019
2019-01-20
19 October 2018 – 20 January 2019
2019-01-20
2018-10-19
Barber Institute of Fine Arts (Birmingham, UK)
http://www.barber.org.uk
2018-10-19
Maman: Vuillard and Madame Vuillard
Loan-out
The Laden Table
support: 470 × 546 mm
frame: 643 × 713 × 60 mm
Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the <a href="/search?gid=999999975" data-gtm-name="tombstone_link_bequest" data-gtm-destination="list-page--search-results">Contemporary Art Society</a> 1940
<p>This <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> shows the drawing-room of the Paris house where Vuillard lived with his mother. The artist's niece stands at the table doing her lessons. Her brother is at the window, looking out. The silhouette of the artist's mother can be seen on the right, and Vuillard himself appears in the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> on the wall. Although he frequently  used friends or family as models, Vuillard said,;I don't make portraits. I paint people in their homes.
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<p><b>Edouard Vuillard</b><span> 1868-1940 </span>
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<p><span><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/vuillard-the-laden-table-n05145" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05145</span></a> </span><b>La Table encombrée</b><span>
(The Laden Table) </span><i>c.</i><span>1908 </span>
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<p><span>Inscribed 'E. Vuillard' b.r.</span>
<br/><span>Pastel on brownish paper mounted on millboard, 18 1/2 x 21 1/2 (47 x 54.5)</span>
<br/><span>Bequeathed by Montague Shearman through the CAS 1940</span>
<br/><i>Prov:</i><span>
With Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (purchased from the artist 26 March 1909); with Alex. Reid, Glasgow; Mrs E.R. Workman, London; with Reid and Lefevre, London; Montague Shearman, London</span>
<br/><i>Exh:</i><span>
</span><i>The CAS: Loan Exhibition of Modern Foreign Painting</i><span>, Colnaghi's Galleries, London, June-July 1924 (64), lent by Mrs Workman; </span><i>Pictures and Drawings by Modern Artists</i><span>, French Gallery, London, October 1925 (7); </span><i>Opening Exhibition of the Modern Foreign Gallery</i><span>, Tate Gallery, June-October 1926 (works not numbered); </span><i>Six French Painters</i><span>, Leicester Galleries, London, December 1936 (3), lent by Montague Shearman; </span><i>The Montague Shearman Collection</i><span>, Redfern Gallery, London, April-May 1940 (26); </span><i>The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</i><span>, National Gallery, London, April-May 1942 (139); </span><i>A Selection from the Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</i><span>, CEMA touring exhibition, September 1942-September 1943 (100); RSA, Edinburgh, May-August 1946 (208)</span>
<br/><i>Lit:</i><span>
Jacques Salomon, </span><i>Vuillard</i><span>
(Paris 1961), p.106, repr.</span>
<br/><i>Repr:</i><span>
John Rothenstein, </span><i>Modern Foreign Pictures in the Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1947), pl.81; John Rothenstein, </span><i>The Tate Gallery</i><span> (London 1966), p.257 </span>
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<p><span>In the Vuillard drawing-room, 26 Rue de Calais, Paris; the door on the right opening on to the dining-room. Annette Roussel (Vuillard's niece) in a white pinafore is standing at the table, where she is doing her lessons. Her brother Jacques is at the window, looking out. On the right, the silhouette of Mme Vuillard, the artist's mother. The picture on the wall in a frame is the <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/portrait" title="Glossary definition for 'Portrait'"><span>portrait</span></a> of Vuillard by Felix Vallotton painted in 1897. </span>
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<p><span>Vuillard and his mother moved to the Rue de Calais in 1907. This picture must have been painted between the time of their arrival and March 1909, when it was purchased by Bernheim-Jeune. A dating of </span><i>c.</i><span>1908 is confirmed by the ages of the two children. </span>
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<p><span>A sketchier version of this <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/c/composition" title="Glossary definition for 'Composition'"><span>composition</span></a> in distemper measuring 48 x 60cm, apparently done as a preliminary study, was sold at Christie's on 19 June 1964, lot 54, and is reproduced in colour in the catalogue. It originally belonged to Jacques Roussel. </span>
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<p><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><span>Ronald Alley, </span><i>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</i><span>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.757-8, reproduced p.757 </span>
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Catalogue entry
2004-09-15T00:00:00
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actions: postures and motions adults architecture book - non-specific boy children cities, towns, villages (non-UK) countries and continents domestic door educational and scientific features France French furnishings girl individuals: female individuals: male interiors living room named individuals nationality objects Paris, Rue de Calais 26 people places portraits reading, writing, printed matter Roussel, Annette Roussel, Jacques self-portraits sitting society student table Vuillard Vuillard, Edouard window woman work and occupations