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Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens")
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About this work
This painting is from a nine-panel decorative series showing children playing in two of Paris’s most spacious parks: the Tuileries Gardens and the Bois de Boulogne. It depicts a game of hide-and-seek in which a girl conceals herself behind a tree. The stillness of the women resting on green chairs at the right is countered by children running at the left. Rather than a realistic rendering of the subject, Édouard Vuillard arranged the composition in bands of colorful, decorative patterns so that the painting seems like a tapestry.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineUnder the Trees (from "The Public Gardens"), 1894. Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Distemper on fabric; framed: 229.9 x 113 x 11.4 cm (90 1/2 x 44 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.); unframed: 214.2 x 96.3 cm (84 5/16 x 37 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1953.212
