Le Pot de fleurs [Pot of Flowers] by Edouard Vuillard A5 postcard

A5 (14.8 x 21 cm) single postcard featuring Nature morte au bougeoir [The Candlestick] by Edouard Vuillard, part of the National Galleries of Scotland collection.

Vuillard selected much of his subject matter from the small Paris apartments he shared with his mother. In painting familiar and ordinary objects he often chose unusual angles and compositions, paying particular attention to the decorative possibilities of scenes.

Like many of Vuillard’s still-life paintings, this work has a casual air to it, like a snapshot of a room rather than a contrived arrangement of objects set up specifically for the painting. Although the focus of this painting is the pot of flowers, the stack of canvases on the left of the work confirm that it is a view of the artist’s studio.

Jean-Édouard Vuillard (11 November 1868 – 21 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist and printmaker.