Interior with Paintings and a Pheasant

Inscription: Signed (lower right): E. Vuillard

Jos Hessel, Paris (from 1928; purchased on October 7, 1928 from the artist); Marcel Kapferer, Paris; Georges Renand, Paris (1931–47; sold in June 1947 through Alfred Daber, Paris, for Fr 300,000 to Kleinberger); [F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, 1947; stock no. 1011; sold in June 1947, as "Still Life," for $7,000, to Lehman]; Robert Lehman, New York (1947–48; his gift to MMA)

Paris. Musée des Arts Décoratifs. "Exposition É. Vuillard," May–July 1938, no. 193 (as "Faisan posé sur une chaise devant un tableau," about 1926, lent by M. Renand).

Paris. Alfred Daber. "Œuvres remarquables de Vuillard," April 25–May 14, 1947, unnumbered cat.

Hartford, Conn. Wadsworth Atheneum. "Twentieth Century Painting from Three Cities: New York, New Haven, Hartford," October 19–December 4, 1955, no. 53 (as "Still Life," c. 1926).

Claude Roger-Marx. Vuillard, His Life and Work. New York, 1946, p. 79, calls it "Faisan posé sur une chaise (Pheasant on a chair)" and dates it 1926; notes that it is one of Vuillard's few paintings of game.

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. 213, ill., call it "Still Life in the Studio"; state that the artist dated it about 1926 for the catalogue of Exh. Paris 1938; note that the sketch clipped to the board behind the pheasant is a study for the tree in the background painting (see Ref. Salomon and Cogeval 2003, nos. XII-48, 49, 50).

Lucy Oakley. Edouard Vuillard. New York, 1981, p. 17, colorpl. 21, calls it "Still-Life in the Studio" and dates it about 1926.

Antoine Salomon, and Guy Cogeval, with the collaboration of Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan, 2003, vol. 3, p. 1469, no. XII-33, ill. (color), call it "Pheasant on a Chair in Front of a Painting by Vuillard" and date it 1928.

Stephen Brown. Edouard Vuillard: A Painter and His Muses, 1890–1940. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New York, 2012, ill. p. 67 (color).