If I had a museum…

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I would want this 1933 Edouard Vuillard painting of Jeanne Lanvin in it.  Yes, the same Lanvin that founded the great Parisian fashion house.  I just love the colors and details—the pencil cup, the pattern books, her lovely green cardigan.  Vuillard once said, “I don’t paint portraits, I paint people at home.”  This is just what I love about this piece, that it lacks the formality and stiffness so often found in portraits of the period.  What would you put in your museum?

(read a great NPR story about Vuillard here)