The First Steps

Édouard Vuillard captures a tender domestic moment in The First Steps, showing a toddler learning to walk. The intimate scene reflects Vuillard's focus on the quiet poetry of everyday life, particularly within bourgeois interiors.

Vuillard was a founding member of the Nabis, a group of Post-Impressionist painters who emphasized decorative surfaces and emotional color. His distinctive style featured flattened perspective and muted earth tones. Much of his work depicted his mother and the family dressmaking business, giving his art an autobiographical intimacy.