Children's Games, by Édouard Vuillard, 1897
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Children's Games

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

1897

Medium
color lithograph
Classification
Print
Dimensions
Image: 26.1 x 44.4 cm (10 1/4 x 17 1/2 in.); Sheet: 43 x 57.5 cm (16 15/16 x 22 5/8 in.)
Culture
France, 19th century
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints
Credit line
Dudley P. Allen Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

This enigmatic image portrays a mother attending to her child who is sprawled on the ground in a public park. The monumental size of the pair compared with other visitors to the park is characteristic of the artist’s manipulation of scale and perspective.