Evening in the Garden of the Alcazar

Provenance

Félix Fénéon (1861-1944), Paris, possibly acquired directly from the artist [Lugt 924a]; sold, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, Fénéon sale, May 30, 1947, lot 58 to Theodore Schempp, New York [curatorial notes; Schempp visited in 1971 and told curators that he purchased the drawing from the Fénéon sale and later sold it to Seligmann]; sold to Jacques Seligmann, Paris. Georges Bernheim, Paris [Thannhauser]. Roger Dametal [Thannhauser]. Sold by Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1964.

Evening in the Garden of the Alcazar

Édouard Jean Vuillard

1892/95

Accession Number

20348

Medium

Gouache and distemper on cream wove paper, laid down on wood-pulp card

Dimensions

Primary support: 48.4 × 43.4 cm (19 1/16 × 17 1/8 in.); Secondary support: 48.8 × 43.6 cm (19 1/4 × 17 3/16 in.)

Classification

gouache

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of the Joseph and Helen Regenstein Foundation