Une dame sous la lampe (Rue de Naples) by Edouard Vuillard

Une dame sous la lampe (Rue de Naples) - Edouard Vuillard - Oil Painting for Home Office

Product Overview

Une dame sous la lampe (Rue de Naples) by Edouard Vuillard is one of those images that never dates. Our studio recreates it as a hand painted oil painting — textured, color-rich, and ready to hang as canvas wall art in a home office, study, or reception area.

The Story Behind the Painting

A lady under the lamp (Naples Street)
1933
Distemper
80 x 85 cm. (31.5 x 33.5 in.)

Treating Vuillard’s favourite subject, that of a figure in a domestic setting, Une Dame sous la lampe depicts Miche Marchand in the salon of the Hessels’ Paris home at 33, rue de Naples. Vuillard knew Miche at least since 1910, when she sat for his Portrait de Miche Savoir, now at the Tate Modern London. At the time, she was married to the successful Parisian dramatist Alfred Savoir, whose real name was Alfred Poznanski, and was also very close to Lucy Hessel, a long-standing friend and patron of Vuillard’s. Annette Vaillant recalled Miche as a young woman: "Miche Savoir, youthful and Polish like her husband, who was her cousin, did not suit the period’s canons of beauty. With a small, amber-coloured, Kalmuck face and salient cheekbones beneath pretty, slightly slanting, green eyes, she liked to dress in unusual clothes. I thought she was beautiful" (quoted in A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, op. cit., vol. II, p. 1107).

The interior depicted in the present work is the salon of the Hessels’ apartment at 33, rue de Naples, where Vuillard spent most of his evenings. The scene depicted here is closely related to Vuillard's larger oil Dans le salon le soir, rue de Naples of 1933, now at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., showing Madame Marchand in the same interior, which is extended to the right to include another two figures. Antoine Salomon and Guy Cogeval have described this composition as "the portrait of Madame Léopold Marchand resting her elbow on a mahogany table bearing a blue porcelain lamp with a yellow shade trimmed with deep red. The right-hand side of the composition is bathed in yellow light. At the centre is a small pastel by Vuillard on a presentation stand; on the left, a grey fireplace beneath a large mirror in which objects on the mantelpiece stand out against a shadowy reflection of the far end of the room" (ibid., vol. III, p. 1506). This atmosphere of tranquillity and meditation motivated Jacques Salomon to describe this work "as [one of his masterpieces of intimacy and contemplation]" (J. Salomon, op. cit., p. 184).

Collectors often choose this fine art image when searching for fine art oil painting that feels substantial rather than decorative or disposable.

Materials & Craftsmanship

Each canvas is painted entirely by hand with professional oil paints on artist-grade cotton canvas. No printing, giclée, or digital imaging is used at any stage, so the surface keeps the slight relief and color variation of real brushwork.

What Is Included

• A true oil-on-canvas painting produced manually by our artists — not a mass-produced print.
• Edges include an additional 2-inch blank allowance, ideal for gallery wrapping or framing.
• We dispatch worldwide ourselves, so there are no middlemen in the chain.
• Available canvas sizes for this hand painted oil painting: 20 X 20 in, 24 X 24 in, 30 X 30 in, 36 X 36 in, 40 X 40 in, 48 X 48 in.
• Custom sizes available: order this painting in your preferred dimensions.
• Multiple low-cost carriers available, including DHL, UPS, FedEx and USPS.
• Complimentary stretching over wooden stretcher bars; ask us about a custom frame.
• Before dispatch we email a digital proof so you can approve the finished canvas.

Styling & Placement

This fine art oil painting wall decor is equally at home in a residence, a boutique hotel, or a professional office. Its post-impressionist character makes it a safe, distinctive gift for anyone furnishing a home office.

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