Woman in Red in a Landscape, 1899, Ker-Xavier Roussel, French, 1867 - 1944, 9 1/8 x 14 in. (23.18 x 35.56 cm) (image)14 7/8 x 19 15/16 in. (37.78 x 50.64 cm) (sheet), Color lithograph, France, 19th century, Ker-Xavier Roussel (1867-1944) was an important French painter, printmaker and decorative artist. While studying at the Lyc?e Condorcet in Paris, he met Edouard Vuillard (whose sister Marie he married in 1893), Maurice Denis and Paul S?rusier. Once they had finished their studies, they all went together to the Acad?mie Julian, where Pierre Bonnard, Georges Lacombe, Paul Ranson and F?lix Valloton were already enrolled. Dissatisfied with the teaching of William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Jules Lef?bvre, they left the Acad?mie in 1890, two years after they had begun to meet together as the Nabis (or Prophets). Roussel took part in the exhibitions at the Caf? Volpini in 1889 and the Le Barc de Boutteville gallery in 1891. His pictures applied the rules of Synthetism outlined by S?rusier-flat planes of repeated color encircled by dark lines forming a harmonious rhythm. Similar to the other Nabis, he did not restrict himself to easel painting but also produced murals, stained glass and lithographs. His print projects, especially those published by the dealer Ambroise Vollard, were important for the development of the symbolist character of his work. The six color lithographs he contributed to Paysages, vividly expressed the pantheist vision of nature that was to characterize his later work.