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At the Café
Édouard Manet1874
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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 transfer lithography—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.
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- Title: At the Café
- Creator: Edouard Manet (French, 1832-1883)
- Date Created: 1874
- Physical Dimensions: Image: 26.3 x 33.4 cm (10 3/8 x 13 1/8 in.); Sheet: 26.9 x 36 cm (10 9/16 x 14 3/16 in.)
- Provenance: Rouart Collection, Paris, France, (sale, Klipstein & Kornfeld, Bern, May 17, 1957), (sale, Christie's, London, December 2, 1987), Graphisches Kabinett Kunsthandel Wolfgang Werner, Bremen, Germany, Klaus J. Jacobs, Zürich, (sale, Kunsthaus Lempertz, Berlin, December 1, 2017), (Joel R. Bergquist Fine Arts, Nashville, TN, sold to the Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH), Print Club of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Type: Print
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.57
- Medium: gillotage
- Inscriptions: signed, in plate, at lower right: Manet, on recto, at lower left: fragment of an unidentified blind stamp (HN within shield)
- Fun Fact: This image appeared in the Belgian journal <em>L’Europe</em>, which was censored by Parisian police. This impression is the only one known to have been saved before the journal was destroyed.
- Department: Prints
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of its 100th anniversary
- Collection: PR - Lithograph
- Accession Number: 2019.57
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