The Fireplace by Edouard Vuillard in the year 1901. Edouard Vuillard was a prominent member of the 1890s avant-garde group The Nabis, (a Hebrew word meaning “prophet”), who acquired notoriety for their highly decorative, semi-abstract compositions. Vuillard favored representations of bourgeois interiors, often of his family home. Here he represents his mother seated in her armchair in the left foreground with her legs stretched toward the heat emanating from the fire.