Place Vintimille by Edouard Vuillard

Tenture de la Dame a la Li Corne:
Anonymous, Tenture de la Dame à Licorne: "la Vue," fifteenth century, tapestry of wool and silk, Musée du Moyen-Age-Cluny, Paris, © Réunion des Musées Nationaux

Contemplating the tapestries, I think that by enlarging it, pure and simple, my little panel can be the subject of a decoration.
—from Vuillard's journal

Concerned that the intimate scale and overall decorative effect of his work might not translate well in large scale, Vuillard drew confidence from the world-famous Unicorn tapestries. On visits to the Cluny Museum of Medieval Art in Paris, Vuillard could see that the different figurative and landscape elements in the fifteenth-century tapestries were unified by a vibrancy of broken, staccato color effects. Many of his sketches resemble tapestry designs.