Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940) La Naissance d’Annette (Annette’s Birth) Lithograph printed in colours, circa 1899, the rare second state (of three) with pink flowers on the eiderdown (not red) and before the red printed over the bottle at right, and before the reduction of the image for the edition published by Ambroise Vollard, Paris Subject 41 x 51 cm; Sheet 43 x 57.1 cm Provenance: Sotheby’s, London, 1977 Literature: Roger-Marx 44 The image depicts the recent birth of Annette, the daughter of Vuillard’s sister Marie and her husband, the artist Ker-Xavier Roussel. A number of colour variants appear to exist before a published edition