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Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens")

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940), 1894.

Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens")
Under the Trees (from "The Public Gardens") — Cleveland Museum of Art

Using it on a cover

The print file prints up to 5.1 x 11.3 in at 300 ppi — fine for smaller trims or inset artwork, but too small to fill a 6 x 9 in cover at 300 ppi. Taller than a 6 x 9 cover: crop about 32% of the height.

About the work

This painting is from a nine-panel decorative series showing children playing in two of Paris’s most spacious parks: the Tuileries Gardens and the Bois de Boulogne. It depicts a game of hide-and-seek in which a girl conceals herself behind a tree. The stillness of the women resting on green chairs at the right is countered by children running at the left. Rather than a realistic rendering of the subject, Édouard Vuillard arranged the composition in bands of colorful, decorative patterns so that the painting seems like a tapestry.

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