3. MANET, Edouard
At the Café
1878
Oil on canvas, 48 x 30 cm
Walters Art Museum,
Baltimore
4. In the Brasserie Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart the women on the fringes of society
freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen...
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7. DEGAS, Edgar
Women at the Terrace of a
Café (Femmes à la terrasse
d'un café le soir)
c. 1877
Pastel, 55 x 72 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
8. At the terrace of a café prostitutes sit in the foreground, waiting for customers, with bored resignation
and professional patience....
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11. MANET, Edouard
Corner of a Café-Concert
1878-80
Oil on canvas, 97 x 78 cm
National Gallery, London
12. The waitress doing her job while her gaze wanders; a man sitting with his clay pipe, a man behind him
reduced to a floating grey hat and a woman drinking among the men ...
16. A man and a woman sitting in front of a wall mirror, a bottle, a glass ... and the difference between the well-fed
bourgeois and the pale, undernourished employee.
24. “Un miché à la mie,” 19th-century slang for a client who neglects to pay a prostitute for her services.
Might this play on words have a bearing on the enigmatic relationship between these two figures?
32. Gentle blue and pink tints combined with a bright red spot of umbrella...
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35. GOGH, Vincent van
Terrace of a Café on
Montmartre (La guinguette à
Montmartre)
October 1886, Paris
Oil on canvas, 50 x 65 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
36. Terrace of a Cafe La Guinguette on Montmartre takes on a sober note in the low autumn light ...
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39. Art in Detail: Famous Paintings of Parisian café
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40. “The café counter is people’s parliament”, Balzac said once and he is no less correct today.
The city’s throbbing heart, a center of social and culinary life, Paris cafés have been around for
centuries.
Once the agora for discussing Rousseau’s and Voltaire’s forbidden works, those revolutionary
hives were the boardrooms where the attack on the Tuileries was planned. In the beginning of
the 20th century, the world’s future was being staked between 2 glasses of absinthe in the
French cafés.
Today, the space in Parisian cafés is no less scarce and the individual distance no less
insufficient. And yet, there will always be enough space for common people, presidents and
anarchists to each find their proper place in the minuscule society of a Parisian café.