Cleveland Museum of Art

The Bistro

Félix Vallotton

Date

c. 1895

Medium

oil on canvas

Culture

France

Department

Modern European Painting and Sculpture

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The hustle and bustle of eager customers in a crowded bistro is captured in this painting. One can almost hear the loud chatter and shouts of orders being called to the busy servers behind the countertop. All in jackets, the men by the bar have rosy cheeks and noses, perhaps from the cold outdoors contrasting the warmth of their drinks. Vallotton is sometimes referred to as a "forgotten" master painter, as his work as a printmaker, designer, art critic, novelist, and playwright detracted from his primary passion of painting.

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