Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother) — About This Work
Édouard Vuillard, 1899
About the Work
A child and grandmother share a densely furnished interior. Pattern and domestic objects surround them, making family life appear embedded in the room's surfaces rather than isolated against a neutral background.
The museum identifies the woman as Vuillard's mother, Marie, and the child as his niece Annette Roussel. These names give the small scene a specific family setting without requiring the figures to behave like formal portrait sitters.
The painting invites the eye to discover people within the room. Its concentrated arrangement lets the relationships between furnishings, colour and bodies carry the intimacy of the encounter.
The Work
Artist: Édouard Vuillard
Title: Luncheon (Annette and Her Grandmother)
Date: 1899
Medium: Oil on board
Recorded dimensions: 32.4 × 29.8 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 2020.118
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 40 × 40 cm Classic Frame, landscape.
The complete artwork is reproduced at its recorded scale, subject only to negligible whole-pixel rounding, without enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion. The surrounding white presentation area accommodates the artwork within the framed presentation and is incorporated into the print rather than added as a separate mount.
Frame finishes: Black, White or Natural.
Paper & glazing: Enhanced Matte + Perspex; or Enhanced Matte + Moth-Eye.
Why Original Scale?
Most art-print shops offer the same image in a choice of Small, Medium and Large sizes. We take a different approach. For each edition, we begin with the recorded dimensions of the original work and reproduce the complete image at that scale, preserving its proportions and avoiding enlargement, reduction, cropping or distortion.
Source: Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0. Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift. 2020.118.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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