Madame Hessel au soleil couchant

According to A. Salomon and G. Cogeval, "Vuillard here employs an unusually dark palette to depict his lover, who merges in a flurry of brushstrokes with the surrounding landscape. The twilight romanticism of the painting is at once exaggerated and unsettling and calls to mind certain pictures of the Italian scapigliatura school, or, better still, the expressionistic effects of the eighteenth-century painter, Magnasco" (op. cit.).