two women sitting at a table

Two Women Sitting at a Table belongs to Vuillard's long sustained engagement with intimate domestic scenes — two figures in a compressed interior space, absorbed in their own activities with no acknowledgment of the viewer's presence. By 1900 Vuillard had fully developed the Nabi approach to domestic painting: figures and setting exist on the same pictorial plane, neither dominating the other, so that the social world is dissolved into the decorative. The work is now in the Museum Collection Am Römerholz in Winterthur, Switzerland, part of the Hahnloser family's exceptional Post-Impressionist holdings.

Vuillard compresses interior space so that the table, figures, and background merge into a single layered field. The palette is warm — ochres, reds, and dark greens. Small, mosaic-like brushstrokes create the characteristic Nabi surface where pattern and figure compete as visual equals.