"L'Aiguillee (The Thread)," by the French artist Edouard Vuillard, oil on canvas. 21 in. x 18 in. Yale University Art Gallery, collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Painting ID:: 72961
Edouard Vuillard "L'Aiguillee (The Thread)," by the French artist Edouard Vuillard, oil on canvas. 21 in. x 18 in. Yale University Art Gallery, collection of Mr. & Mrs. Paul Mellon, B.A. 1929. Courtesy of Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
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Edouard Vuillard Galleries
Jean-Edouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saone-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances. After his father\'s death, in 1884, Vuillard received a scholarship to continue his education. In the Lycee Condorcet Vuillard met Ker Xavier Roussel (also a future painter and Vuillard\'s future brother in law), Maurice Denis, musician Pierre Hermant, writer Pierre Veber and Lugne-Poe. On Roussel\'s advice he refused a military career and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, where he met Pierre Bonnard.
In 1885, Vuillard left the Lycee Condorcet and joined his closest friend Roussel at the studio of painter Diogene Maillart. There, Roussel and Vuillard received the rudiments of artistic training.
