We are in the warmly lit interior of a café where a pale-skinned woman stands in profile at a dark wooden bar that extends away from us in this horizontal painting. The woman stands behind the bar to our left and faces our right. She has upswept brown hair and wears a navy-blue dress. The entire scene is loosely painted, and the elevated area just beyond the woman is especially loose, built up with thick strokes of seafoam green, black, and daubs of white. A cluster of vertical amber-colored, brown, and light grass-green strokes suggest bottles sitting along its top. Another object, perhaps…
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Bon Bock Café

painter Anonymous Artist

Style of related artist Edouard Manet (French, 1832 - 1883)

1881

Medium
oil on wood
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 26.6 x 34.9 cm (10 1/2 x 13 3/4 in.) ; framed: 47.3 x 55.2 x 7.3 cm (18 5/8 x 21 3/4 x 2 7/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art