# At the Café

- By: Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
- Date: c. 1897–99
- Medium: oil on board, laid on cradled panel
- Classification: Painting
- Dimensions: Unframed: 28.8 x 27.5 cm (11 5/16 x 10 13/16 in.)
- Culture: France, 19th century
- Credit line: Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.57)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.57/1958.57_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Teens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

This scene of two women in a Parisian café has a hushed atmosphere that is heightened by the warm palette and glow of gaslight. Édouard Vuillard and Félix Vallotton were close friends and painted together in the 1890s, but Vuillard’s quiet café and Vallotton’s riotous Bistro (2020.114) could not be more different in mood.