At the Café

Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)

1874

Medium

gillotage

Classification

Print

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.)

Culture

France, 19th century

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints

Credit line

Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of its 100th anniversary

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

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 gillotage—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.

• Impressionism
• Prints
• 1800s
• France