The present work is from the small body of works Vuillard executed at the beginning of the 1890s in a purely "intimiste" style, utilising the synthetist theories of Gauguin. Elizabeth Wynne Easton writes; "It is in Vuillard's small interiors that his artistic genius reaches its fullest flower...Vuillard has always been considered an intimist, not only because he preferred to paint small-scale pictures but also because he concentrated on evocative depictions of family and friends in familiar surroundings. Almost without exception, he chose interiors as the setting for the intimate subjects so close to his heart." (The Intimate Interiors of Edouard Vuillard, London, 1989, p. 3).

Of a similar intimist work of 1890 titled La Visite John Russell writes; "measuring a mere seven inches by nine, and with a minimum of facial details, it contrives by sheer command of stance, posture, and outline to set before us three old ladies in the middle of a particularly rewarding exchange of vies. There is an absolute minimum of stage-setting: simply a flood colour, here and there." (Edouard Vuillard 1868-1940, London, 1971, p. 29)

To be included in the forthcoming Edouard Vuillard catalogue raisonné being prepared by Antoine Salomon and Annette Leduc Beaulieu from the records and under the responsibility of Antoine Salomon