Vuillard and the Art of Japan
23.06 – 29.10.2023
In the summer of 2023, the Fondation de l’Hermitage has been revisiting the work of Nabi master Édouard Vuillard (1868-1940), seen through the lens of Japonism that took Paris by storm at the turn of the 20th century. Centred on the delicate landscape held at the Hermitage, La Maison de Roussel à La Montagne (1900), the exhibition showed the crucial influence of Japanese art on Vuillard’s work. Around a hundred paintings and engravings of scenes of everyday life and nature, created by Vuillard between the 1890s and the First World War, were shown here in dialogue with some fifty Japanese masterpieces.