Famous Paintings of Parisian Café

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Famous Paintings of Parisian Café

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...

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....

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 ...

15. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri
de
At the Cafe: The Customer and
the Anemic Cashier 1898
Oil on cardboard, 82 x 60 cm
Kunsthaus, Zurich

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.

19. RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
In the cafe. The drinkers
1877
Oil on canvas, 39.5 × 34.5cm
Private collection

20. Light, colour, movement, atmosphere ... a lively of Parisian life at the fin de siècle.

23. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC, Henri
de
At the Café La Mie
Oil paint on millboard
mounted on panel, 53 x 67.9
cm
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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?

27. DEGAS, Edgar
Absinthe Drinkers (In the Café)
1876
Oil on canvas, 92 x 68 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

28. A man, a woman, a glass filled with the eponymous greenish liquid ... and a general air of desolation.

31. KOROVIN, Konstantin
Alekseyevich
Café in Paris
1892-94
Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm
State Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow

32. Gentle blue and pink tints combined with a bright red spot of umbrella...

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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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.