Saturday, August 27, 2016

Color Lithographs at the British Museum I

Édouard Vuillard
Intérieur à la suspension
1899
lithograph
British Museum

Édouard Vuillard
Intérieur aux teintures rouges
1899
lithograph
British Museum

Curators at the British Museum explain that these Vuillard interiors are part of the series Paysages et Intérieurs,  " ... a complete album containing twelve lithographs and cover of landscapes and interiors by the artist (Paris: Ambroise Vollard, 1899); printed by Augustus Clot. The album was commissioned from Vuillard by Vollard and published in an edition of 100 at a price of 175 francs.All the lithographs are printed in colour, and this particular set is on China paper. Paysages et Intérieurs is the culmination of Vuillard's partnership with Vollard and his printer Auguste Clot." 

Henri Jules Ferdinand Bellery-Desfontaines
L'Énigme
1898
lithograph
British Museum

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Le Jockey
1899
lithograph
British  Museum

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Le Coiffeur
1893
lithograph
British Museum

Louis Rhead
Jane
1898
lithograph
British Museum

Hippolyte Petitjean
Arcadian Scene
1898
lithograph
British Museum

Odilon Redon
Centaure visant les nues
1895
lithograph
British Museum

Paul Balluriau
Crépuscule
1898
lithograph
British Museum


Anonymous print-maker after Correggio
Leda and the Swan
19th century
lithograph
British Museum

James McNeil Whistler
Nocturne
1878
lithograph
British Museum

Alfred Pierre Agache
Impéria
1899
lithograph
British Museum

Anonymous print-maker
Crown for Queen Adelaide's Coronation
1831
lithograph
British Museum


Vivant Denon
Young woman drawing at a window
early 19th century
lithograph
British Museum

I am grateful to the British Museum for making these images available.