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However, he failed in the competitions to enter the École des Beaux-Arts in February and July 1886 and again in February 1887. In 1885, Vuillard took courses at the Académie Julian, and frequented the studios of the prominent academic painters William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Robert-Fleury. There, Roussel and Vuillard learned the rudiments of painting. He joined Roussel at the studio of painter Diogène Maillart, in the former studio of Eugène Delacroix on Place Fürstenberg. In November 1885, when Vuillard left the Lycée, he gave up his original idea of following his father in a military career, and set out to become an artist. At the Lycée he met several of the future Nabis, including Ker-Xavier Roussel (Vuillard's future brother in law), Maurice Denis, writer Pierre Véber, and the future actor and theater director Aurélien Lugné-Poe. Vuillard studied rhetoric and art, making drawings of works by Michelangelo and classical sculptures. He was awarded a scholarship to attend the prestigious Lycée Fontaine, which in 1883 became the Lycée Condorcet. Vuillard entered a school run by the Marist Brothers. Īfter his father's retirement in 1877, the family settled in Paris at 18 Rue de Chabrol, then moved to a building on Rue Daunou where his mother had a sewing workshop. His father was 27 years older than his mother, Marie Vuillard (née Michaud), who was a seamstress. Vuillard's father was a retired naval captain who became a tax collector after leaving the military. Jean-Édouard Vuillard was born on 11 November 1868 in Cuiseaux ( Saône-et-Loire), where he spent his youth. Vuillard was influenced by Paul Gauguin, among other post-impressionist painters.

In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted portraits of prominent figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings. After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, Vuillard adopted a more realistic style, approaching landscapes and interiors with greater detail and vivid colors. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designed plates and stained glass. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form.

From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a prominent member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. Jean-Édouard Vuillard ( French: 11 November 1868 – 21 June 1940) was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker.