In Misia et Vallotton à Villeneuve, the painter Félix Vallotton can be seen behind Natanson and turned in the opposite direction. Vallotton also had a flirtatious relationship with the pianist. The third character in this intricately contrived drama is Misia’s husband Thadée, co-founder of the literary journal La Revue Blanche. Misia turns her back on Thadée as he converses with Vallotton, implying his diminished place in her emotional world; Vuillard, likewise, has reduced him almost to a non-presence, radically cropping the image so that only a sliver of his form remains visible. [https://www.christies.com/Features/10-things-to-know-about-Edouard-Vuillard-8635-1.aspx]