Café Wepler (c. 1908–10, reworked in 1912): Art, History and Details

Café Wepler (c. 1908–10, reworked in 1912) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

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.

Object facts

• Title: Café Wepler
• Date: c. 1908–10, reworked in 1912
• Creator attribution: Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940)
• Culture: France, late 19th-early 20th Century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: 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.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1950.90

A detail from the museum

Established in 1881, the Cafe Wepler is still in business. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it was frequented by artists and writers.

Collection credit

Gift of the Hanna Fund

Further reading listed by the museum

• Salomon, Antoine, Guy Cogeval, and Mathias Chivot. Vuillard, the Inexhaustible Glance: Critical Catalogue of Paintings and Pastels. Milan: Skira, 2003.
• Sören Schmeling, email to Victoria Sears Goldman, Nov. 25, 2015, in CMA curatorial file.
• Vuillard, Édouard, and Charles Hug. Edouard Vuillard (1868-1940), Charles Hug: 26. März-1. Mai 1949, Kunsthalle Basel. Basel. Kunsthalle. Catalogues. 1949-1950. [Basel]: [Die Kunsthalle], 1949.

View the collection record

See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.