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Café Wepler — Édouard Vuillard

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Written by: Mehmet SezerResearcher · Old Master Paintings
Old Master Paintings · Catalogue no. 1929
Édouard Vuillard

Café Wepler

StatusReference work · Not for sale
Held byCleveland Museum of Art
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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.

Artist / MakerÉdouard Vuillard
Datec. 1908–10, reworked in 1912
Culture / OriginFrance, late 19th-early 20th Century
Mediumoil on fabric
DimensionsFramed: 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.)
DepartmentModern European Painting and Sculpture
TypePainting
About the Artist

After attending the Lycée Condorcet, Édouard Vuillard entered the studio of history painter Diogène Maillart (1840-1926). In 1886 he enrolled at the Académie Julian, where he was taught by Tony Robert-Fleury (1837-1911) and Bouguereau (q.v.). The following year he was accepted into the École des Beaux-Arts and was briefly in the atelier of Gérôme (q.v.). At this time he also studied seventeenth-century Dutch painting and the works of Chardin (1699-1779). By 1889 Vuillard was persuaded by his friend painter and… Full biography →

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