Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Danse à Bougival (Dance at Bougival) 1883 Oil on canvas, 181.9 x 98.1 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The open-air cafés of suburban Bougival, a town on the river Seine west of Paris, were popular recreation spots for…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La tasse de chocolat (Cup of Chocolate) c.1914 Oil on canvas, 58.3 x 49.4 cm Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Depicted at a café table in a moment of quiet reverie, Renoir‘s model invites us to pause and imagine the swirls…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Au café (In the Café) c.1877 Oil on canvas, 35.7 x 27.5 cm Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo Everyday life Together with Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir is one of the central figures of impressionism. But while Monet prefers to paint…
Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) Buveuse d’absinthe (Absinthe Drinker) 1901 Oil on canvas, 73 x 54 cm Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg Picasso produced this work in the autumn of 1901, during his second trip to Paris, when he was just 22 years old.…
Vuillard, Édouard (1868-1940) Au café (At the Café) c.1897–1899 Oil on board, laid on cradled panel, 28.8 x 27.5 cm Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Vuillard once said, “I don’t do portraits. I paint people in their surroundings.” This scene of…
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Coin d’un café-concert (Corner of a Café-Concert) probably 1878–1880 Oil on canvas, 97.1 x 77.5 cm National Gallery, London In the middle of the nineteenth century the café-concert became extremely popular in France, and Parisian establishments such as the…
Gris, Juan (1887-1927) Homme dans un café (Man in a Café) 1912 Oil on canvas, 127.6 x 88.3 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia See also: • Apollinaire, Guillaume (1880-1918) | Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973)
Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890) Le café de nuit (The Night Café) 1888 Oil on canvas, 72.4 × 92.1 cm Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven See also: • Arles (France)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Femme lisant (Woman Reading) 1880–1882 Oil on canvas, 61.2 × 50.7 cm Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago During the late nineteenth century, Parisian cafés were the gathering places of artists and writers and were ideal locations for observing…
Boccioni, Umberto (1882-1916) Rissa in galleria (Riot in the Gallery) 1910 Oil on canvas, 74 x 64 cm Pinacoteca di Brera, Milano After a period spent in Rome, the artist decided to move to Paris in 1906, driven by poverty and disillusioned…