Orchard — About This Work
Édouard Vuillard, 1897
About the Work
Trees spread across a low orchard landscape, their irregular strokes set against the more measured divisions of cultivated land. Vuillard gives both kinds of form a place within the same compact view.
The painting can be followed through the contrast between growth and arrangement. The branches resist the straighter organisation of the ground, while small changes of colour connect nearby vegetation with more distant passages.
The museum relates the imagery to recollections of walking with Vuillard, rather than identifying a single documented episode in the picture. The orchard remains an observed landscape whose movement is carried by its painted surface.
The Work
Artist: Édouard Vuillard
Title: Orchard
Date: 1897
Medium: Oil on board
Recorded dimensions: 29.4 × 22.4 cm (W × H)
Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art
Accession number: 2020.120
Print & Presentation
Palatine presentation: 30 × 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. 2020.120.
Care: Display in a dry interior away from prolonged direct sunlight and sources of moisture.
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