Café Scene
Georges Rouault
1906
Medium
gouache on paper
Dimensions
Overall: 38.6 x 28.6 cm (15 3/16 x 11 1/4 in.) framed: 56.6 x 47.6 x 5.3 cm (22 5/16 x 18 3/4 x 2 1/16 in.)
Classification
Drawing
Department
CG-W
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Chester Dale Collection
Accession Number
1963.10.210
About the Artist
Georges Rouault
Georges-Henri Rouault was born on May 27, 1871, in a Paris cellar during the violent "Bloody Week" of the Paris Commune, when a stray shell destroyed his family's home in the working-class Belleville district. Raised by a carpenter father who worked at the Pleyel piano factory and a grandfather who collected prints by Honoré Daumier, Rembrandt, Courbet, and Manet, Rouault showed early artistic pro...