Probably the artist's love of everything decorative and his use of ornamental patterns in his pictures echo Vuillard's memories of the tailoring workshop set up by his mother after his father's death. Vuillard was close to Bonnard and helped organize the Nabi group in 1889. His small, brightly colored pictures, seemingly composed of several areas of color like mosaics, anticipate the discoveries of Fauvism, which followed the Impressionist perception of the world. Depicting the everyday life of the common man, he created wonderfully decorative compositions. Later, he favored large colored surfaces, producing openly decorative effects that resulted in the creation of vast decorative panels.

Inscription: Signed and dated, upper right: E. Vuillard 93

Accession Number: ГЭ-6538

Provenance:

Entered the Hermitage in 1930; handed over from the State Museum of New Western Art in Moscow; originally in the Sergei Shchukin collection