Interior (Intérieur) from the portfolio The Original Print (L'Estampe originale), no. I

Édouard Vuillard

published 1893

A small lithograph in which Édouard Vuillard quietly stages a domestic moment—two women in a shallow, curtained interior—using soft, painterly lithographic marks and a muted touch of color to suggest atmosphere over action.

What strikes you first is the compressed, intimate space: flattened patterns of wallpaper and a cropped chair, two figures drawn with smoky, sketchlike lines and a single warm ochre accent that make the scene feel both close and slightly enigmatic.

Produced for the 1893 L'Estampe originale portfolio, this work shows how Vuillard and the Nabis translated the decorative, intimate concerns of contemporary painting into printmaking, helping to revive lithography as a vehicle for mood and everyday modern life.

Palette

Exhibitions

Women of the Nineties: Fin-de-Siècle Prints

1979

Symbolism, Synthesists, and the Fin-de-Siècle

1972

Vuillard

1954

French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection

1952