Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009186Café Wepler
About the Artwork
The Wepler, a large brasserie restaurant on Place Clichy in the Montmartre district of Paris, is composed of several rooms on different levels. Once frequented by bohemian artists like Pablo Picasso and Amedeo Modigliani, the Wepler is still in business today.
Inscriptions
Signed bottom right in red (stamp?): E. Vuillard
Provenance
c. 1908-1940: Artist’s studio, by inheritance to Jacques Roussel Probably 1940-1949/1950: Jacques Roussel [b. 1901], Paris Until 1950: (César de Hauke, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) 1950-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
French Impressionists. Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (organizer) (May 23-April 19, 1953). Work of Edouard Vuillard. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 27-March 14, 1954). In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). Vuillard. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (organizer) (October 14-November 15, 1964). Retrospective Exhibition: Work of Edouard Vuillard. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (September 10-October 24, 1971). Celebration. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA (organizer) (October 25, 1974-January 5, 1975). Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023). Café Society: Art and Sociability in Paris, 1855 - 1914. Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Copenhagen, Denmark (February 5-May 31, 2026); The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN (organizer) (June 18-September 6, 2026); Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (September 26, 2026-January 17, 2027).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
- Date
- c. 1908–10, reworked in 1912
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 91.8 x 132.7 x 13 cm (36 1/8 x 52 1/4 x 5 1/8 in.); Unframed: 62.2 x 103.2 cm (24 1/2 x 40 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Accession no.
- 1950.90
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