The Top Hat, Interior  1887

Alternative Title: The Visit [br]French Title: Le Haut-de-forme, intérieur ou La visite In this painting of an interior, Vallotton remains visibly true to the realist ambitions that had until then governed the construction of his portraits. The Visit, under the guise of flat objectivity—that desire to tell all that plagued the artist's beginnings—, pursues this explora...