Cleveland Museum of Art

At the Café

Édouard VuillardLinkedCulture matchlcp-93b93d26d1f2

Date: c. 1897–99
Medium: oil on board, laid on cradled panel
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 135518

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This scene of two women in a Parisian café has a hushed atmosphere that is heightened by the warm palette and glow of gaslight. Édouard Vuillard and Félix Vallotton were close friends and painted together in the 1890s, but Vuillard’s quiet café and Vallotton’s riotous Bistro (2020.114) could not be more different in mood. Vuillard once said, “I don’t do portraits. I paint people in their surroundings.”

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Credit line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, Paris. André Weil, Paris. Jacques Seligmann, New York. Theodore Schempp, Brodhead, Wisc. Purchased from him by Leonard C. Hanna together with a Gauguin painting, 7 June 1943. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1958.