# In the Room

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VUILLARD, Édouard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on cardboard, 52 x 79 cm

## Commentary

The restrained palette of this typical early interior by Vuillard is constructed around a few closely related tones. Although it may seem excessively impoverished, those hues - gray-green, yellow ochre, and brownish black - make up the painting&#39;s main protagonist: a tantalizing half-shadow that reigns in this spacious room illuminated only slightly by bright light from the windows. The unexpected bouquet in the foreground is far more important for the work&#39;s characteristics of colour, scent, and feelings than the barely indicated, insignificant figures sitting at the table.

## Related artworks

- [Children](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2/children-rcbf5483a51603a>)
- [Félix Vallotton](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2/flix-vallotton-rbae97d294845c5>)
- [In Bed](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2/in-bed-rf42d30008acdab>)
- [Madame Bonnard](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2/madame-bonnard-r2b9211716e6f19>)
- [The Piano](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2/the-piano-rbc09903f7a2112>)
- [The Singer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2/the-singer-r1f82877e973ac1>)
- [View of the Binnenalster in Hamburg](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vuillard-douard-r5b83bb86fefbd2/view-of-the-binnenalster-in-hamburg-r1ef9e0a01ae830>)

## Attribution

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