Keywords: Edouard Manet - At the Café - Walters 37893.jpg Edouard Manet - At the Café - Google Art Project jpg Manet was the quintessential Painter of Modern Life a phrase coined by art critic and poet Charles Baudelaire In 1878-79 he painted a number of scenes set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart where women on the fringes of society freely intermingled with well-heeled gentlemen Here Manet captures the kaleidoscopic pleasures of Parisian nightlife The figures are crowded into the compact space of the canvas each one seemingly oblivious of the others When exhibited at La Vie Moderne gallery in 1880 this work was praised by some for its unflinching realism and criticized by others for its apparent crudeness ca 1879 Oil on canvas cm 47 3 39 1 ; Framed cm 65 72 58 1 9 53 accession number 37 893 16473 Boussaton 1881 Boussaton Sale Galerie Georges Petit Paris May 15 1891 no 61 A M Haviland Limoges date and mode of acquisition unknown J B Faure Paris date and mode of acquisition unknown Collection J B Faure Sale Paris 1902 no 38 Durand-Ruel Paris 1907 mode of acquisition unknown Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1909-10 Manet From Ingres to Gauguin French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1951 From El Greco to Pollock Early and Late Works by European and American Artists Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1968 Manet and Modern Paris National Gallery of Art Washington 1982-1983 Manet 1832-1883 Galeries nationales du Grand Palais Paris; The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York 1983 The Taste of Maryland Art Collecting in Maryland 1800-1934 The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1984 Manet's Working Methods The Courtauld Gallery London 1986 Impressionism the City and Modern Life Ordrupgaard Charlottenlund 1996 Before Monet Landscape Painting in France and Impressionist Masters Highlights from The Walters Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998 Highlights from the Collection The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1998-2001 Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet The Walters Art Gallery Baltimore 1999-2000 Triumph of French Painting Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore; Philbrook Museum of Art Tulsa; Norton Museum of Art West Palm Beach; Royal Academy of Arts London; Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo; Dayton Art Institute Dayton 2000-2002 A Magnificent Age Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Baltimore The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Kansas City; Mint Museum of Art Charlotte; The Walters Art Museum Baltimore 2002-2004 19th Century Masterpieces from the Walters Art Museum Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Jack S Blanton Museum of Art Austin 2010-2011 place of origin France place depicted Cabaret de Reischoffen Boulevard de Rochechouart Paris Q7720924 Walters Art Museum license 2D Paris in the 1870s Cabaret de Reischoffen Paintings of Parisian café interiors Paintings of Paris by Édouard Manet 1878 paintings Fashion in 1878 Top hats in art beer drinking in art drinking in paintings French paintings in the Walters Art Museum Café-concerts in Paris Off the Wall Baltimore 1870s paintings from France La Vie moderne revue Vive la France French Treasures from the Middle Ages to Monet |