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At the Café

Édouard ManetLinkedCulture matchlcp-4e4676476acc

Date: 1874
Medium: gillotage
Culture: France, 19th century
Department: Prints
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 324444

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This print by Édouard Manet depicts the Café Guerbois, a gathering place for Impressionist artists in 19th-century Paris. Although best known for his paintings, the artist was an avid printmaker throughout his entire career. Here, he experimented with gillotage —a new technique at the time—to suggest the quick, sketchy lines of drawing, making the image appear as if it had been created quickly and spontaneously. This image appeared in the Belgian journal L’Europe , which was censored by Parisian police. This impression is the only one known to have been saved before the journal was destroyed.

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Credit line: Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of its 100th anniversary
Provenance: ?-?: Rouart Collection, Paris, France | 1957: (sale, Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, May 17, 1957) | 1987: (sale, Christie's, London, December 2, 1987) | 1988: Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, Germany | after 1988-by 2017: Klaus J. Jacobs, Zürich | 2017: (sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin, December 1, 2017) | after 2017-2019: (Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Nashville, TN, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH) | 2019: Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | 2019-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH