Cleveland Museum of Art
The Bistro
Félix VallottonLinkedCulture matchlcp-33d86593d95e
- Date
- c. 1895
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Culture
- France
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 84370
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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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- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Provenance
- by 1938: (Mme. L. Godet-Druet, Paris, France) | 1964: (Galerie Vallotton, no. 5626, Lausanne, Switzerland) | August 22, 1969: (Galerie Vallotton, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul [1920–2002], New York, NY, August 22, 1969) | June 2003: (Galerie Hopkins & Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) | 2003–2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art | 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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