Woman Sweeping at 346 rue Saint-Honoré

Painted in 1895 and now at the Cleveland Museum of Art, this work depicts a woman sweeping—one of the recurring labor scenes from Vuillard's mother's domestic world—at a specific Paris address on the rue Saint-Honoré. His ability to make a simple sweeping gesture into a subject worthy of sustained artistic attention reflects his debt to Chardin's celebration of domestic labor, filtered through the Nabi commitment to decorative synthesis. The specificity of the address suggests this was a known, observed location rather than a generic domestic setting.

The sweeping gesture extends diagonally across the picture plane, the broom handle providing a strong linear element against the flat, pattern-rich wall and floor. Vuillard's closely valued palette in grays, creams, and warm browns compresses figure and setting, the woman's form barely distinguishable from the domestic environment she inhabits.