A travers champs, from Paysages et Intèrieurs

A travers champs, from Paysages et Intèrieurs, is one of the color lithographs from Vuillard's celebrated series Paysages et Intérieurs, published in 1899 as part of the Estampes Originales program. This series of twelve prints represented his most ambitious engagement with the reproductive medium, translating his patterned approach to domestic and outdoor subjects into the language of color lithography. The print of fields or countryside — a travers champs suggesting movement through open agricultural land — applies the Nabi aesthetic to landscape with the simplified color planes and flat graphic treatment that lithography demands and rewards.

As a lithograph, the image uses flat areas of color separated by firm boundaries rather than the mixed, broken paint marks of his oils. The reductive color palette required by printmaking forces a bolder simplification than Vuillard's paintings typically show, making the formal logic of his Nabi approach particularly apparent.