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At the Café
Édouard Vuillardc. 1897–99
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
This scene of two women in a Parisian café evokes Vuillard’s view of the apartments that he shared with his mother throughout the 1890s. The space is confined and densely patterned, and colors flicker like jewels under gaslight.
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- Title: At the Café
- Creator: Edouard Vuillard (French, 1868-1940)
- Date Created: c. 1897–99
- Physical Dimensions: Unframed: 28.8 x 27.5 cm (11 5/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Ambroise Vollard, Paris. André Weil, Paris. Jacques Seligmann, New York. Theodore Schempp, Brodhead, Wisc. Purchased from him by Leonard C. Hanna together with a Gauguin painting, 7 June 1943. Bequeathed to the CMA in 1958.
- Type: Painting
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.57
- Medium: oil on board, laid on cradled panel
- Inscriptions: Signed lower left: E Vuillard
- Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit Line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.
- Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
- Accession Number: 1958.57
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