Cleveland Museum of Art
At the Café
Édouard Vuillard
- 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
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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