![]() In 18, he pursued his studies in academic art. In July 1887, the persistent Vuillard was accepted, and was placed in the course of Robert-Fleury, then in 1888 with the academic history painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. However, he failed in the competitions to enter the École des Beaux-Arts in February and July 1886 and again in February 1887. In 1885 he took courses at the Académie Julian, and frequented the studios of the prominent and fashionable painters William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury. There, Roussel and Vuillard learned the rudiments of painting. He joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart, in the former studio of Eugène Delacroix on Place Fürstenberg. In November 1885, when he left the Lycée, he gave up his original idea of following his father in a military career, and set out to become an artist. At the Lycée he met several of the future Nabis, including Ker-Xavier Roussel (Vuillard's future brother in law), Maurice Denis, writer Pierre Véber, and the future actor and theater director Aurélien Lugné-Poe. Vuillard studied rhetoric and art, making drawings of works by Michelangelo and classical sculptures. He was awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Lycée Fontaine, which in 1883 became the Lycée Condorcet. Vuillard entered a school run by the Marist Brothers. In 1877, after his father's retirement, the family settled in Paris at 18 rue de Chabrol, then moved to Rue Daunou, in a building where his mother had a sewing workshop. ![]() His father was 27 years older than his mother, Marie Vuillard (née Michaud), who was a seamstress. Vuillard's father was a retired captain of the naval infantry, who after leaving the military became a tax collector. Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born on 11 November 1868 in Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire), where he spent his youth. Vuillard was influenced by Paul Gauguin, among other post-impressionist painters. In the 1920s and 1930s he painted portraits of prominent figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings. After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, he adopted a more realistic style, painting landscapes and interiors with lavish detail and vivid colors. He also was a decorative artist, painting theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designing plates and stained glass. ![]() From 1891 through 1900, he was a prominent member of the Nabis, making paintings which assembled areas of pure color, and interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, where the subjects were blended into colors and patterns. Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter, decorative artist and printmaker.
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