Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009395The Bistro
About the Artwork
The hustle and bustle of eager customers in a crowded bistro is captured in this painting. One can almost hear the loud chatter and shouts of orders being called to the busy servers behind the countertop. All in jackets, the men by the bar have rosy cheeks and noses, perhaps from the cold outdoors contrasting the warmth of their drinks.
Inscriptions
Artist's signature lower left: F. VALLOTTON
Provenance
by 1938: (Mme. L. Godet-Druet, Paris, France) 1964: (Galerie Vallotton, no. 5626, Lausanne, Switzerland) August 22, 1969: (Galerie Vallotton, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur G. Altschul [1920–2002], New York, NY, August 22, 1969) June 2003: (Galerie Hopkins & Custot, Paris, France, sold to Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley) 2003–2020: Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art 2020–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Impressionism to Modernism: The Keithley Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 11, 2022-January 8, 2023).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Félix Vallotton (Swiss French, 1865–1925)
- Date
- c. 1895
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Unframed: 22.2 x 27 cm (8 3/4 x 10 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Collection Gift
- Accession no.
- 2020.114
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