Painting Detail
Woman at a PianoArtist: Felix Vallotton
Medium: Painting, Oil on canvas, 43.5x57 cm
Date: 1904
Genre: Genre Painting, Interiors
Source: Collection of G. E. Gaazen, Petrograd, 1921
Felix Edouard Vallotton (December 28, 1865 - December 29, 1925) was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with Les Nabis. He was an important figure in the development of the modern woodcut.
He was born into a conservative middle-class family in Lausanne, and there he attended Collège Cantonal, graduating with a degree in classical studies in 1882. Vallotton's paintings of the post-Nabi period found admirers, and were generally respected for their truthfulness and their technical qualities, but the severity of his style was frequently criticized.