1894, Edouard Vuillard, Madame Vuillard in a Set Designer's Studio -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: The complex architecture of this interior suggests that it was painted in the studio where Vuillard worked as a set painter. The figure shown before the staircase may be Vuillard's mother, a seamstress, who appears to be crouching over a balustrade either working on a garment or in pensive repose. Starting in 1889, Vuillard was associated with a group of young avant-garde artists who called themselves the Nabi (Hebrew for "prophet"). They painted from memory, unlike their predecessors, the Impressionists, who painted of the moment.
1894, Edouard Vuillard, Madame Vuillard in a Set Designer's Studio -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: The complex architecture of this interior suggests that it was painted in the studio where Vuillard worked as a set painter. The figure shown before the staircase may be Vuillard's mother, a seamstress, who appears to be crouching over a balustrade either working on a garment or in pensive repose. Starting in 1889, Vuillard was associated with a group of young avant-garde artists who called themselves the Nabi (Hebrew for "prophet"). They painted from memory, unlike their predecessors, the Impressionists, who painted of the moment.