View in Switzerland

'View in Switzerland,' painted by Vuillard around 1900, documents one of his infrequent ventures beyond France into the Alpine landscape. Swiss mountain scenery was far removed from Vuillard's habitual territory of Parisian domestic interiors and garden settings, and the work represents his response to a landscape that demanded a different visual approach. The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art holds this unusual landscape departure from one of Post-Impressionism's most committed domesticists—a reminder that even the most focused painters occasionally looked beyond their primary subjects.

Vuillard applies his characteristic flat, pattern-conscious brushwork to the Alpine landscape, treating mountain forms and vegetation with the same simplified, surface-aware approach he brought to interiors. The result transposes his Nabi principles onto unfamiliar terrain, making the work an interesting exception in his career.