Cleveland Museum of Art

At the Café

Édouard Manet

Date

1874

Medium

gillotage

Culture

France, 19th century

Department

Prints

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

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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