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Lot Essay
This work is one of the rare existing examples of the studies after the Old Masters undertaken by Vuillard during his multiple visits at the Louvre Museum between 1901 and 1903. Like Picasso and Matisse who drew on paintings of the past as a new source of inspiration, Vuillard spent long hours at the Louvre making copies especially of Spanish and Italian Renaissance Masters such as Tintoretto, El Greco, Veronese and Titian.
This charming, almost abstract oil, is a freely inspired variation on the Jupiter et Antiope (also called the Prado Venus) by Titian acquired by Louis XIV in 1661 for the royal collections and now considered one of the most important masterpieces of the Louvre.
This work will be included in the supplement of the Edouard Vuillard Catalogue Raisonné currently being prepared by the Comité Vuillard under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.
This charming, almost abstract oil, is a freely inspired variation on the Jupiter et Antiope (also called the Prado Venus) by Titian acquired by Louis XIV in 1661 for the royal collections and now considered one of the most important masterpieces of the Louvre.
This work will be included in the supplement of the Edouard Vuillard Catalogue Raisonné currently being prepared by the Comité Vuillard under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Institute.