Bonnard shared Vuillard's Post-Impressionist sensibility and intimate figurative approach, creating portraits and interior scenes with subdued tonal harmonies and a deeply introspective quality that closely mirrors this portrait of Maillol.

Vallotton created psychologically penetrating portraits of artistic contemporaries using muted neutral tones and a restrained modernist figuration that parallels Vuillard's quiet intensity and careful observation of his subject.

As a fellow Nabis movement painter, Denis worked in a similarly contemplative Post-Impressionist style with subdued palettes and figurative compositions that share the meditative and respectful tone present in Vuillard's portrait of Maillol.