Édouard Vuillard: where to see him across these museums

Vuillard studied at the Académie Julian, where he met Maurice Denis, Ker-Xavier Roussel and Paul Sérusier, and by 1890 had joined their Nabis circle — painters who took Gauguin’s flattened forms and bold color as a starting point for decorative, symbol-laden work. Living with his widowed mother, a seamstress, for much of his life, he found his defining subject in her workroom: bolts of fabric, wallpaper and dresses rendered in the same dense, patterned brushwork.

Alongside his close friend Pierre Bonnard, Vuillard became one of the two leading painters of Intimism, the strand of the Nabis devoted to quiet bourgeois domestic scenes rather than religious or literary subjects. He continued painting portraits and interiors into the 1930s, and died near Paris in 1940.

Vuillard paintings on display, museum by museum

Rooms and display status checked against each museum’s own collection database.

Listen to the commentary in the gallery

This list tells you where to look. In front of the actual painting, CulturAll adds the audio commentary: photograph the work or its label, listen, then ask your questions.