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Find the pale house at the left, then follow the bands of garden and trees beyond its roof. Where do individual leaves give way to a larger pattern?
Vuillard’s 1899 landscape looks across rooftops toward trees and an open garden. Patches of yellow-green foliage and pale ground sit between dark roofs and trunks. Rather than separating the buildings sharply from their surroundings, he repeats colors and textures across them, giving the view the density of a patterned surface.
Oil on canvas · 249.2 × 378.5 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Post-Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Landscape: Window Overlooking the Woods
- Artist
- Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)
- Date
- 1899
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 249.2 × 378.5 cm (96 1/8 × 149 in.); Framed: 259.4 × 392.5 cm (102 1/8 × 154 1/2 in.)
- Credit line
- L.L. and A.S. Coburn Fund, Martha E. Leverone, Charles Norton Owen funds, and purchased with funds provided by an anonymous donor
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.