- Title:
- The Mantelpiece (La Cheminée)
- Object name(s):
- Picture; French
- Brief description:
- This picture -- a combination of interior scene and still-life painting -- shows Vuillard's room at Château-Rouge in Amfreville, Normandy. His friends Jos and Lucy Hessel rented the house for the summers of 1905, 1906 and 1907.A posy of wild flowers on the marble mantelpiece sits alongside a number of bottles, artworks tucked behind them. Another picture hangs on the wall, far above the painting rags that are hanging up to dry. The richly decorated walls compete with the still-life arrangement on the mantelpiece. Despite this interplay between the two-dimensional and the three-dimensional, the foreshortened mantelpiece, which appears to jut out of the picture, marks the artist's move to a more naturalistic approach.On the reverse of the painting there is a rapid sketch of three figures -- a woman and two children -- on a beach. The woman crouches down to pet one of the two dogs sat beside her.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Accession date:
- 1917-01-01
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1917
- Date - latest:
- 1917
- Acquisition source:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Associated concept:
- flowers
- Credit line:
- Sir Hugh Lane Bequest, 1917, The National Gallery, London. In partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin.
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Current reproduction location:
- 2/290/103/272/mid_N-3271-00-000016.jpg
- Current reproduction location:
- 181/445/689/mid_N-3271-00-000019.jpg
- Dimension:
- Height
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 51.40
- Dimension:
- Width
- Dimension measured part:
- Overall
- Dimension measurement unit:
- cm
- Dimension value:
- 77.50
- Form:
- None
- Inscription content:
- Signed; Dated
- Material:
- oil on board
- Material:
- oil
- Material:
- paper-fibre based board
- Object name:
- Picture; French
- Object production date:
- 1905
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1905
- Date - latest:
- 1905
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1900-24
- Object production person:
- Edouard Vuillard
- Person's birth date:
- 1868
- Person's death date:
- 1940
- Object production place:
- France
- Object production place:
- Paris
- Other number:
- NG3271
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0G7H-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG3271
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-04NJ-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- ng33271
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Owner:
- Sir Hugh Percy Lane
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- flower paintings
- Style:
- domestic interiors
- Style:
- Nabi
- User's reference:
- National Gallery Catalogues: French School: Early 19th Century, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists etc.
- Reference details:
- 142
- Reference note:
- Latest catalogue
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- The National Gallery: Complete Illustrated Catalogue
- Reference details:
- 714
- Reference note:
- Key bibliography
- Reference type:
- reference
- User's reference:
- Hugh Lane : founder of a gallery of modern art for Ireland /edited by Barbara Dawson ; assisted by Logan Sisley, Jessica O'Donnell, and Michael Dempsey.
- Reference details:
- Ill. (p. 149)
- Reference type:
- reference
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f9488721-636f-3c4d-bd1c-a7a18377f9a9
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/f9488721-636f-3c4d-bd1c-a7a18377f9a9, National Gallery, CC BY
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