Misia assise dans une bergère dit "Nonchaloir"

This 1901 canvas at the Musée d'Orsay depicts Misia Natanson seated in a bergère armchair, the title's word 'Nonchaloir' suggesting languid, elegant ease. It was painted at the height of Vuillard's association with the Natanson circle and with La Revue Blanche, whose cultural world he depicted with unfailing intimacy. Misia's reclining pose in the enveloping chair captures something of her personality—confident, magnetic, at home in luxury—while Vuillard transforms the scene through his distinctive conflation of figure and furnishing into a unified decorative whole.

Vuillard integrates Misia's dress, the bergère's upholstery, and the surrounding interior into near-continuous surface pattern. The warm pinks and reds of chair and dress are balanced by cooler surroundings, with brushwork that is loose and gestural in the background and slightly more focused on the face and hands.