Fleurs sur une table

Fleurs sur une table (Flowers on a Table) is a floral still life in which a vase of flowers on a domestic table becomes Vuillard's subject. Unlike his domestic interiors, where flowers typically appear as incidental elements in a room, here the flowers and their table setting are the sole subject. Vuillard painted floral still lifes throughout his career with varying degrees of elaboration; the simpler compositions focus on the relationship between flower mass, vase, table surface, and background in a manner that directly inherits from Cézanne and Chardin while maintaining Vuillard's own characteristic surface approach.

The flower mass is rendered in Vuillard's mosaic brushwork, individual blooms built from small strokes of varied colour that create the overall organic mass. The table surface and background provide contrasting horizontal and vertical planes. The palette focuses on the flowers' specific colour range set against complementary surroundings.