At the Café
Medium
gillotage
Dimensions
image: 26.3 × 33.4 cm · sheet: 26.9 × 36 cm
Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Gift of the Print Club of Cleveland in honor of its 100th anniversary
Accession Number
2019.57
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.