Café Wepler

Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)

c. 1908–10, reworked in 1912

Medium
oil on fabric
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
Framed: 91.8 x 132.7 x 13 cm (36 1/8 x 52 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed: 62.2 x 103.2 cm (24 1/2 x 40 5/8 in.)
Culture
France, late 19th-early 20th Century
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Credit line
Gift of the Hanna Fund
Rights
Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

View at the Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

The Wepler, a large brasserie restaurant on Place Clichy in the Montmartre district of Paris, is composed of several rooms on different levels. Once frequented by bohemian artists like Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani, the Wepler is still in business today.