Inscription: Signed (lower left): E. Vuillard

the artist (to Hessel); Monsieur and Mme Jos Hessel, Paris (by 1930–at least 1939); their daughter, Mme Jacques Arpels, Paris (until 1952; consigned to Knoedler); [Knoedler, New York, 1952; sold on November 28, 1952 to MMA]

Paris. Paul Rosenberg. "Exposition d'œuvres de Bonnard et Vuillard provenant de collections particulières," December 2–31, 1936, no. 41 (as "Le clos Cézanne," lent by M. J. Hessel).

Paris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. "Exposition É. Vuillard," May–July 1938, no. 180 (as "Jardin à Vaucresson," 1923 and 1937, lent by M. Jos. Hessel).

London. Alex Reid & Lefevre, Ltd. "L'École de Paris," November 1938, no. 74 (as "Le Jardin de Vaucresson," about 1926).

New York World's Fair, French Pavilion. "Contemporary French Art," 1939, no. 159 (as "Le Clos Cézanne à Vaucresson," lent by M. Jos Hessel, Paris).

New York. Paul Rosenberg. "Paintings by Bonnard and Vuillard (1868–1940)," January 5–30, 1943, no. 7 (as "Le Clos Cézanne à Vaucresson," 1918).

New York. Wildenstein. "Vuillard," October 16–November 21, 1964, no. 59 (as "Garden at Vaucresson," started in 1923, resumed in 1937).

Paris. Orangerie des Tuileries. "Édouard Vuillard—K. X. Roussel," May 28–September 16, 1968, no. 160 (as "Jardin à Vaucresson").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition," December 13, 1974–February 16, 1975, not in catalogue.

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Painters in Paris: 1895 1950," March 8, 2000–January 14, 2001, unnumbered cat. (p. 43; as "Morning in the Garden at Vaucresson," 1923 and 1937).

Art Institute of Chicago. "Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930," February 25–May 16, 2001, no. 85 (as "Morning in the Garden at Vaucresson").

New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930," June 26–September 9, 2001, no. 85.

Édouard Vuillard. Journal. July 23 and October 29, 1920 [Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris, III.6, fol. 51v, III.7, fol. 19v. Excerpts published in English transl. in Ref. Salomon and Cogeval 2003, vol. 3, p. 1324].

Édouard Vuillard. Journal. May 31 and October 9, 1926 [Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris, III.(S).E., fol. 20r and fol. 63r. Excerpts published in English transl. in Ref. Salomon and Cogeval 2003, vol. 3, p. 1324].

Romain Coolus. "Le Château des Clayes." La Renaissance 13 (July 1930), ill. pp. 191 (installation photo), 194.

Édouard Vuillard. Journal. May 11, June 16, and October 19, 1935 [Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris, IV.8, fol. 45v and fol. 54r, IV.9, fol. 18r. Excerpts published in English transl. in Ref. Salomon and Cogeval 2003, vol. 3, p. 1325].

Theodore Rousseau, Jr. "A Guide to the Picture Galleries." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 12 (January 1954), p. 7, ill. p. 56.

Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. French Paintings: A Catalogue of the
Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 3, XIX–XX Centuries. New York, 1967, p. 214, ill.

Pierre Georgel in Édouard Vuillard, K. X. Roussel. Exh. cat., Haus der Kunst Munich. Paris, 1968, p. 120, no. 160, ill.

Bernard Dunstan. "The Distemper Technique of Édouard Vuillard." American Artist 37 (February 1973), ill. p. 44.

Lucy Oakley. Edouard Vuillard. New York, 1981, p. 17, ill. on front cover (color) and colorpl. 18.

Patricia Ciaffa. Columbia University. The Portraits of Edouard Vuillard. 1985, pp. 356–60, fig. 203.

Gary Tinterow et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 8, Modern Europe. New York, 1987, p. 85, colorpl. 61.

Belinda Thomson. Vuillard. New York, 1988, pp. 110, 139, colorpl. 109.

Grace Glueck. "When One City Was the Heart of Art's Youth." New York Times (March 10, 2000), p. E39.

Gloria Groom. Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 2001, pp. 250–52, 278, no. 85, ill. (color).

Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval, with the collaboration of Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan, 2003, vol. 1, p. 519; vol. 3, pp. 1323–25, no. XI 52, ill. (color).

Rebecca A. Rabinow in Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800–1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2007, pp. 191, 312, no. 176, ill. (color and bw).