Édouard Vuillard: Turn of the Century Paris
    Édouard Vuillard, Programme leaflet of: »La vie muette« (»The silent life« by Maurice Beaubourg), 1894, Lithography, 324 × 245 mm © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
       
        
      
   
       Édouard Vuillard, Les Tuileries (Die Tuilerien), 1895, Lithography, 336 × 485 mm (sheet size) © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
       
        
      
   
       Trial proof for the titlepage of: »Paysages et Intérieurs«, ca. 1899, Lithography, 587 × 463 mm (sheet size)
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       Édouard Vuillard, Les deux belles soeurs, from: Paysages et interiors,, ca. 1899, Lithography, 386 x 315 mm (sheet size)
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       Édouard Vuillard, Trial proof: Les deux belles soeurs, ca. 1899, Lithography, 492 × 350 mm (sheet size) © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
       
        
      
   
       Édouard Vuillard, La Couturière (The tailor), 1893/94, Lithographie in two colours (Blue and Orange), 256 × 164 mm (sheet size, irregular) © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
       
        
      
   
       Édouard Vuillard, La Couturière (The tailor), 1895, Lithography in two colours (»bleu et ocre«), 322 × 245 mm (sheet size) © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
       
        
      
   
       Édouard Vuillard, Trial proof: Intérieur aux tentures roses III, ca. 1899, Lithography, coal, 431 × 337 mm (sheet size)
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       Édouard Vuillard's Lithographic press installed at the exhibition "Insights into the Lithography Studio". Photo: Andreas Strobl © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München. 
       
        
      
   
       Édouard Vuillard, L’Avenue, ca. 1899, Lithography, 332 × 450 mm (sheet size) © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
       
        
      
   
       Édouard Vuillard, Trial proof: Maternité (Maternity), 1896, Lithography, 309 × 316 mm (sheet size, irregular) © Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München 
       
        
      
   
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