Interior at Saint-Jacut

Inscription: Signed (lower left): E. Vuillard

[Bernheim-Jeune, Paris,1909–16; purchased from the artist on October 9, 1909, for Fr 400; stock no. 17698, as "Le Chien"; sold on January 10, 1916 to the artist]; the artist (from 1916); possibly Dimier, Paris; [Wildenstein, London, 1948]; [possibly M. Knoedler and Co., London]; F. Beddington, Esq., London (1948–49; sale, Sotheby's, London, June 15, 1949, no. 150, as "Interior with Figures and a Dog," sold for £420 to O'Hana); [O'Hana Gallery, London, from 1949; sold to Lefevre]; [Lefevre Gallery, London, 1957; sold to Engelhard]; Charles W. Engelhard, London (1957–d. 1971; his estate, 1971–73; sale, Sotheby's, London, March 28, 1973, no. 54, as "Scène d'Intérieur," sold to Sabet); Gabriel Sabet, Geneva (1973–d. 1996; his estate, 1996–98; sale, Sotheby's, London, December 8, 1998, no. 119, as "Le Chien," sold to Hopkins-Thomas-Custot); [Galerie Hopkins-Thomas-Custot, Paris, from 1998; sold to Devrishian]; David Allen Devrishian, Fairfield, N. J. (until 2000; his gift to MMA)

Paris. MM. Bernheim Jeune & Cie. "Exposition Vuillard," November 2–20, 1909, no. 29 (as "Le chien").

London. Wildenstein. "Edouard Vuillard," June 1948, no. 59 (as "Interior with Figures and Dog," ca. 1932).

Edinburgh. Royal Scottish Academy. "Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuillard," August 17–September 18, 1948, no. 117 (as "Interior with Figures and a Dog," ca. 1932, lent by F. Beddington, Esq.).

London. Lefevre Gallery. "XIX and XX Century French Paintings," October 3–November 9, 1957, no. 22 (as "Interior with Figures," ca. 1905).

Lisa M. Messinger in "Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 1999-2000." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 58 (Fall 2000), p. 62, ill. (color), identifies the figures in this picture as Alfred Natanson in the doorway, his eight-year-old daughter, Annette, and Lucy Hessel at the desk with her dog Basto lying on the floor.

Antoine Salomon, and Guy Cogeval, with the collaboration of Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan, 2003, vol. 2, p. 964, no. VIII-293, ill. (color), call it "The Dog"; identify the figures in this picture as the writer André Picard in the doorway, Denise Natanson, and Lucy Hessel writing at the desk.