The Seamstress
by Édouard Vuillard, 1893
StylePost-Impressionism
Artwork Details
Details
- Year
- 1893
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 47.5 cm × 41.3 cm
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Édouard Vuillard painted this intimate scene in 1893, showing a woman sewing with her back to us before a window. Vivid patterned wallpaper contrasts with plain grey walls. The artist left underlying board exposed in the table, dress, and wall, giving the work an unfinished quality.
The stripe of wallpaper dominating the left third creates ambiguous spatial relationships. Interplay of beiges, browns, and reds meets Vuillard's signature flat pink window. His mother ran a dressmaker's workshop that inspired many such scenes. The Nabis group favored these poetic images of silent, meditative activity. Now at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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About The Seamstress
Édouard Vuillard created this work in 1893. He helped found the Nabis, a group of progressive artists inspired by Gauguin who emphasized decorative use of color and shape.
Intimism was a late 19th-century style exploring domestic interiors. Vuillard and Pierre Bonnard were its main practitioners, using broken color to capture warmth and quiet isolation of home scenes.
Vuillard's mother Marie ran a dressmaker's workshop. He painted many scenes of women sewing, drawing on daily life in his family home. The Nabis valued such poetic images of quiet domestic activity.
The work is in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (Newfields). It has also been exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and the National Gallery of Art in Washington.
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