Intérieur et mystère. Réminiscences baroques dans les toiles d’Édouard Vuillard
Interior and mystery. Baroque reminiscences in the paintings of Édouard Vuillard

Summary/Abstract: Devoted to the Nabis’ credo, Edouard Vuillard tried, at the end of the 19th century, to revivify picture elements and techniques of the past. He seems to have been fascinated, from an early age, by Dutch and Flemish interior paintings. But, instead of creating also a trompe l’œil by the use of perspective, his modern overlapping of plans and signs tends to create a sort of ontological trompe l’œil. For Vuillard, people, objects and decorative backgrounds form a unique and symbolic body. The boundaries that usually separate each object and individual are disappearing giving place to a mysterious but nonetheless captivating unity, a cocoon that enfolds us and gives us an experience of totality that we seem to have lost a long time ago.

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