Marking 150 years since the artist’s birth, this catalogue accompanies the fi rst exhibition dedicated exclusively to Édouard Vuillard’s portrayal of his mother, Madame Marie-Justine-Alexandrine Michaud Vuillard. Few other artistic practices have so consistently featured the artist’s mother as motif, whether that is in paintings that approximate to the conventions of portraiture, those that represent her professional life as the chef-patronne of a corsetry atelier or the numerous paintings of everyday domesticity that subsume the figure of Madame Vuillard into a generically maternal role. It is no coincidence that in 1920 Vuillard declared ‘Ma Maman, c’est ma muse’.