Portrait of Toulouse Lautrec, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, with the Natansons

Jean-Édouard Vuillard was a French painter, decorative artist, and printmaker. From 1891 through 1900, Vuillard was a member of the avant garde artistic group Les Nabis, creating paintings that assembled areas of pure color. His interior scenes, influenced by Japanese prints, explored the spatial effects of flattened planes of color, pattern, and form. As a decorative artist, Vuillard painted theater sets, panels for interior decoration, and designed plates and stained glass. After 1900, when the Nabis broke up, Vuillard adopted a more realistic style, approaching landscapes and interiors with greater detail and vivid colors. In the 1920s and 1930s, he painted portraits of figures in French industry and the arts in their familiar settings.

Portrait of Toulouse Lautrec, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, with the Natansons, sometimes referred to as Toulouse-Lautrec Cooking, is an 1898 painting by French artist Édouard Vuillard. The work depicts fellow artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec on holiday cooking in the kitchen at Les Relais, the country home of Vuillard's patron Thadée Natanson in the city of Villeneuve-sur-Yonne, in north-central France. Vuillard's painting captures Lautrec in a rare, sober state of mind, cooking his favorite dish of lobster while dressed in rain gear due to a recent storm. In the 1890s, Vuillard often focused on interior, domestic scenes during his summer vacation, producing paintings depicting ordinary people engaging in everyday life.