# At the Café

- By: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of its 100th anniversary
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.57)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2019.57/2019.57_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 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.