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Félix Vallotton

Félix Vallotton

Swiss-French, 1865

WA-00029871

Lausanne, Switzerland

PaintingImpressionismPost-ImpressionismSymbolism

Representation

None documented

22

Institutional Exhibitions

133

Works in Collection

212

Assets Indexed

3

Authority-backed Facts

0

Publications Referenced

90%

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Authority Records (3)

WikidataQ123740 ULAN500017056

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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Master Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1989

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Naked/Nude

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1986

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Prints from Blocks: Gauguin to Now

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1983

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The Symbolist Aesthetic

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1980–1981

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Women of the Nineties: Fin-de-Si�cle Prints

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1979–1980

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Selections from the Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1978

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Impresario: Ambroise Vollard

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1977

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European Master Paintings from Swiss Collections: Post-Impressionism to World War II

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976–1977

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Prints: Acquisitions, 1973�1976

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976–1977

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Prints from the Collection

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1976

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F�lix Vallotton: Woodcuts of the 1890s

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1974

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Symbolism, Synthesists, and the Fin-de-Si�cle

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1972

Field Verification (3 fields)

3 cross-verified · 0 single-source

Birth yearMoMA· 93%✓
LocationMoMA· 93%✓
NationalityMoMA· 93%✓

Source Registry (2)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/felix-vallotton
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/6064
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

Associated with the French post-impressionist group Les Nabis, Félix Vallotton began his career as a painter, but he is best known for his stark black-and-white woodcuts. His scenes, which are often domestic in nature, are marked by simplified details and undifferentiated areas of shading. Vallotton was influenced by the works of Albrecht Dürer and Hans Holbein, which he saw in the Louvre as a young art student, as well as by Ukiyo-e Japanese prints, an Edo period art form that centered on depictions of cosmopolitan life. In his reductive woodcuts, Vallatton prefigured the visual sobriety of such disparate artists as August Sander and Edward Hopper.

Source: Christies Artsy · Trust score: 100% · Updated 1mo ago

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Movement

Impressionism

Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern ArtNew York National Gallery of Art Tate

Canonical record

Artworks (133)

Still Life with Flowers

1925 · Oil on canvas

28 3/4 × 23 5/8 in. (73 × 60 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Road at St Paul (Var)

Road at St Paul (Var)

1922 · Oil paint on canvas

support: 806 x 645 mm

Landscape at Saint-Jeannet, Provence

1922 · Oil on canvas

32 in. × 25 1/2 in. (81.3 × 64.8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Flowering Peach Trees, Provence

1922 · Oil on canvas

28 7/8 × 23 3/4 in. (73.3 × 60.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Still Life with Apples and Glass of Water

1921 · Oil on canvas

21 3/8 × 25 5/8 in. (54.3 × 65.1 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Church of Souain

The Church of Souain

1917 · oil on canvas

overall: 96 x 130 cm (37 13/16 x 51 3/16 in.) framed: 120 x 154.3 x 6.3 cm (47 1/4 x 60 3/4 x 2 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

In the Darkness (Dans les Ténèbres) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

In the Darkness (Dans les Ténèbres) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

1916 · One from a series of six woodcuts

composition: 6 7/8 x 8 3/4" (17.5 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 9 5/8 x 13 1/8" (24.5 x 33.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Lookout (La Guetteur) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

The Lookout (La Guetteur) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

1916 · One from a series of six woodcuts

composition: 6 15/16 x 8 3/4" (17.6 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 10 1/8 x 13 3/16" (25.7 x 33.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Civilians (Les Civils) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

The Civilians (Les Civils) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

1916 · One from a series of six woodcuts

composition: 6 7/8 x 8 3/4" (17.5 x 22.3 cm); sheet: 9 7/8 x 13 3/16" (25.1 x 33.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Barbed Wire (Les Fils de Fer) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

Barbed Wire (Les Fils de Fer) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

1916 · One from a series of six woodcuts

composition: 6 7/8 x 8 3/4" (17.5 x 22.3 cm); sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 1/8" (24.7 x 33.4 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Orgy (L'Orgie) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

The Orgy (L'Orgie) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

1915 · One from a series of six woodcuts

composition: 6 15/16 x 8 3/4" (17.7 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 9 3/4 x 13 1/4" (24.8 x 33.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Trench (La Tranchée) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

The Trench (La Tranchée) from This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

1915 · One from a series of six woodcuts

composition: 6 15/16 x 8 3/4" (17.6 x 22.2 cm); sheet: 9 13/16 x 13 1/4" (24.9 x 33.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

This Is War (C'est la Guerre)

1915 · Series of six woodcuts

Museum of Modern Art

The Wind

1910 · oil on canvas

overall: 89.2 × 116.2 cm (35 1/8 × 45 3/4 in.) framed: 100.9 × 127.6 × 6.35 cm (39 3/4 × 50 1/4 × 2 1/2 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Postcard for the Kabarett Fledermaus, Vienna

Postcard for the Kabarett Fledermaus, Vienna

1908 · Lithograph

5 1/2 × 3 1/2" (14 × 8.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Grands Chasseurs--Le Cerf est prêt

Grands Chasseurs--Le Cerf est prêt

1903 · black crayon and brush over graphite on wove paper

image: 25 x 19.7 cm (9 13/16 x 7 3/4 in.) sheet: 39.8 x 22.6 cm (15 11/16 x 8 7/8 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study for 'Les cinq peintres' (The Five Painters)

Study for 'Les cinq peintres' (The Five Painters)

1902 · graphite on board

sheet: 32.1 × 24.6 cm (12 5/8 × 9 11/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

The Moving Footway (plate I) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

The Moving Footway (plate I) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

1901 · Woodcut

composition: 4 13/16 x 6 1/4" (12.2 x 15.8 cm); sheet: 9 1/4 x 11 5/8" (23.5 x 29.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Five O'Clock (plate IV) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

Five O'Clock (plate IV) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

1901 · Woodcut

composition: 6 7/16 x 4 13/16" (16.4 x 12.2 cm); sheet: 11 5/8 x 9 1/4" (29.5 x 23.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

The Downpour (plate II) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

The Downpour (plate II) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

1901 · Woodcut

composition: 4 3/4 x 6 1/2" (12.1 x 16.5 cm); sheet: 9 1/4 x 11 5/8" (23.5 x 29.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Lalique's Window (plate III) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

Lalique's Window (plate III) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

1901 · Woodcut

composition: 4 13/16 x 6 7/16" (12.2 x 16.3 cm); sheet: 9 1/4 x 11 5/8" (23.5 x 29.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cairo Street (plate V) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

Cairo Street (plate V) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

1901 · Woodcut

composition: 6 1/2 x 4 3/4" (16.5 x 12.1 cm); sheet: 11 11/16 x 9 1/4" (29.7 x 23.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Fireworks (plate VI) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

Fireworks (plate VI) from The World's Fair (L'Exposition Universelle)

1901 · Woodcut

Museum of Modern Art

Help!, My Cutlet's Being Stolen!, plate XX (folio 777) from Crimes et Châtiments

irreg. composition 10 5/8 x 7 7/8" (27 x 20 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (6)

133 published of 209 catalogued · 150 with image

MoMA
76 publishedof 152 catalogued100 img
Nga
41 published41 img
Art Institute Chicago
7 published7 img
The Met
7 published
Tate
1 published1 img
Rijksmuseum
1 published1 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 1)

1 entries · 1 sources

Road at St Paul (Var)
1922 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

Artsy artist portrait

Artsy

The Red Room, Etretat (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

The Red Room, Etretat (Art Institute of Chicago)

Art Institute of Chicago

Relationships

10

Movements4

Impressionism Post-Impressionism Symbolism Art Nouveau

Collections6

Rijksmuseum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago Museum of Modern Art National Gallery of Art Tate

Institutional

Representation & Collections

In collection

Rijksmuseum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

In collection

National Gallery of Art

In collection

Tate