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Children's Games
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
1897
- Medium
- color lithograph
- Classification
- 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.