A screen made up of five tall, rectangular panels, set side by side and each surrounded by a gold frame, is painted as a single scene showing a tree-lined sidewalk curving around a park in a city. The scene is loosely painted with short, rounded brushstrokes. The top two-thirds to three-quarters of most of the panels are filled with the lime and olive-green leaves of the trees that line the sidewalk and park. In the leftmost panel, the sidewalk and road lead back to a row of caramel-brown building façades. The sidewalk is pale taupe, and the street is painted with dashes of the same taupe…

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Place Vintimille

painter Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868 - 1940)

1911

Medium: five-panel screen, distemper on paper laid down on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall (each of five panels): 230 x 60 cm (90 9/16 x 23 5/8 in.)
Culture: French
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line: Gift of Enid A. Haupt
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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