Detail of Jos and Lucie Hessel in the Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli by Vuillard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

Jos and Lucie Hessel in the Small Salon, Rue de Rivoli

Édouard Vuillard
(French, Cuiseaux 1868–1940 La Baule)

Date: ca. 1900–1905

Medium: Oil on cardboard mounted on canvas

Dimensions: 14 1/2 x 22 3/8 in. (36.8 x 56.8 cm)

Classification: Paintings

Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002

Accession Number: 2003.20.18

Description: After the Natansons were divorced in 1904, Vuillard shifted his familial attachment from them to the art dealer Jos Hessel and his wife, Lucie, who received the artist every evening at six. The Hessels are seen here in their apartment on the rue de Rivoli, Paris.

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