Jean-Édouard Vuillard, the son of a retired captain, spent his youth at Cuiseaux (Saône-et-Loire); in 1878 his family moved to Paris in modest circumstances.
While in Paris, he was a particularly avid student of the French modernism of André Derain, Édouard Vuillard, and Pierre Bonnard, inspirations which are evident in his own refined color sense.
Édouard Manet | Édouard Vuillard | Édouard Daladier | Jules Edouard Roiné | Édouard-Louis Pacaud | Édouard-Louis-Antoine-Charles Juchereau Duchesnay | Édouard Lalo | Édouard Detaille | Édouard Stephan | Edouard Roditi | Édouard Michelin | Édouard Lucas | Édouard Lock | Édouard Lartet | Edouard Lanteri | Édouard Frère | Édouard Cortès | Édouard Carmignac | Édouard Balladur | Edouard A. Stackpole | Ange Edouard Poungui | Portrait of Louis de Bussy d'Amboise by Édouard Pingret | Pierre Édouard Blondin | ''Le Tennis'', huile sur toile d'Édouard Vuillard, 1907 | Jean-Baptiste Édouard Bornet | Isidore-Édouard-Candide Masson | George-Édouard Desbarats | Edouard Verreaux | Edouard Vermeulen | Édouard Roditi |
Batignolles is now the home for the earthly remains of André Barsacq, Alexandre Benois, André Breton, Alfred Bruneau, Lucienne Bréval, Gaston Calmette, Blaise Cendrars, Léon Dierx, Pierre Dreyfus, Marguerite Durand, Hélène Dutrieu, Joséphin Péladan, Benjamin Péret, Ray Ventura, Paul Vidal, Édouard Vuillard and André Zirnheld (in the family grave), among others.
He moved to New York and began studying on his own artists such as John Singer Sargent, Edgar Degas, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Diego Velázquez, James McNeill Whistler and Édouard Vuillard.