Le Grand Intérieur aux six personnages
1897
on displayÉdouard Vuillard1868 Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire) – 1940 La Baule
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According to Cogeval's conjectures, the painting bears witness to the marital crisis of Vuillard's sister Marie and her husband Kerr-Xavier Roussel, who had a relationship with Germaine Rousseau. The latter would be seen large in the front, confronted with Vuillard's mother on the left, behind her Paul Ranson, married to France Rousseau, who condemned her sister's behavior. The scene takes place in the salon of the Ranson family on the Boulevard du Montparnasse. Cogeval suspects that the painting was painted in the fall of 1895 at the height of the crisis and that Roussel, turning away, first appeared at the back right. In 1897 Vuillard would have alleviated the all too painful allusion by painting the mother Ida Rousseau instead of the infidel.
Also known as
Grosses Interieur mit sechs Personen
Large Interior with Six Figures
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
image: 88 x 193 cm
Inventory number
1966/0013
Credit line
Kunsthaus Zürich, 1966