Café Wepler
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.
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Details
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- framed: height 0.918 m, width 1.327 m, depth 0.13 m; unframed: height 0.622 m, width 1.032 m
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Holding institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- cleveland-museum-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
Art Genome Taxonomy
9 tags
Subject Matter
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Bars and Restaurants Both · 99%
The Cleveland Museum of Art identifies the subject as the Wepler brasserie restaurant, and the image clearly shows a crowded dining and drinking interior with tables, chairs, and patrons.
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Interiors Both · 98%
The catalog describes the Wepler as a large restaurant composed of rooms on different levels; the image shows an interior structured by columns, arches, and receding compartments.
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Scenes of Everyday Life Both · 92%
The work records social activity in a public café, including seated patrons, standing figures, tables, and apparent service activity.
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Human Figure Visual · 98%
Numerous loosely defined human figures occupy the middle and background of the composition, with additional standing figures among the tables.
Visual Qualities
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Dense Composition Visual · 95%
The central and lower portions of the image contain overlapping tables, chair backs, figures, and furnishings, producing a tightly layered overall arrangement.
Medium and Techniques
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Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 96%
Broad, broken, and overlapping strokes visibly describe the figures, furnishings, walls, and architectural elements without sharply delineated contours.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum catalog identifies the medium as oil on fabric.
Time Periods
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1900 - 1917 Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog dates the work to circa 1908–10, reworked in 1912, placing it within the 1900–1917 period.
Geographic Regions
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French Art Metadata · 99%
The catalog gives France as the place of origin and identifies Édouard Vuillard as French.
Source & rights
Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940). Café Wepler. Cleveland Museum of Art.
High-resolution sources
- Original TIFF ↗ 7,832 × 4,728 · Cleveland Museum Of Art · Available