Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940)
Intérieur avec des peintures et un faisan (Interior with Paintings and a Pheasant)
1928
Tempera and pastel on canvas, 84.5 × 104.8 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The painting in the background of this work shows the daughter and grandson of collector David David-Weill at his country house in Mareil-le-Guyon. Supposedly Vuillard was working on the painting in his studio when David-Weill stopped by with a pheasant from a hunting expedition. Vuillard placed it before the unfinished canvas in progress and began to paint the present picture. (MET)