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Beyond the Easel: Decorative Painting by Bonnard, Vuillard, Denis, and Roussel, 1890–1930
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La Place Vintimille, five-panel screen for Miss Marguerite Chapin, 1911
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
Distemper on paper mounted on canvas; each panel: 90 1/2 x 23 5/8 in. (230 x 60 cm)
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C., Gift of Enid A. Haupt
© 2001 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
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Description
In 1908 Vuillard moved to an apartment facing the Place Vintimille in the ninth arrondissement of Paris. Earlier that year, the playwright Henry Bernstein had purchased four panels from Vuillard's Streets of Paris series. Bernstein ordered four additional cityscapes, and Vuillard chose as their subject the Place Vintimille and nearby side streets.
Soon thereafter, in spring 1910, Vuillard met the wealthy expatriate Marguerite Chapin. For the five-panel screen she commissioned, the artist used the view from his apartment. He worked quickly—in part because he was already comfortable with the subject. By the end of June 1911, Chapin's Place Vintimille screen was ready to be mounted onto a wood support and backed with wallpaper.
Because the rue de Bruxelles is one of the streets that leads to the Place Vintimille, the square was renamed (1940) the Place Adolphe-Max, in honor of the burgomaster of Brussels.
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