Felix Vallotton studied at the Academie Julian in Paris after 1881 where he met Lautrec and also the Nabis artists becoming a member of their group. He contributed woodcuts and lithographs to the leading art periodicals of the 1890’s including La Revue Blanche in France and Pan in Germany among others. Ref; M. Goerg. Vallotton catalogue raisonne. Geneve.1972.