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The Bistro
Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925)
c. 1895
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 22.2 x 27 cm (8 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- 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 hustle and bustle of eager customers in a crowded bistro is captured in this painting. One can almost hear the loud chatter and shouts of orders being called to the busy servers behind the countertop. All in jackets, the men by the bar have rosy cheeks and noses, perhaps from the cold outdoors contrasting the warmth of their drinks.
