Famous Cafe and Restaurant Paintings
The café was the living room of 19th century Paris, and painters were among its regulars. Choose a hand-painted oil reproduction of a famous café or restaurant painting.
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About Famous Cafe and Restaurant Paintings
Vincent van Gogh painted "Café Terrace at Night" in Arles in 1888 (Kröller-Müller Museum), a yellow awning glowing under a starry sky. The same year he painted "The Night Café" (Yale University Art Gallery), a harsh interior of red walls and green light, which he described as a place where one could ruin oneself or go mad.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir's "Luncheon of the Boating Party" (1880 to 1881, Phillips Collection, Washington) shows his friends relaxing on a restaurant balcony by the Seine. Edgar Degas painted "In a Café", also known as "L'Absinthe" (Musée d'Orsay), two lonely drinkers at a marble table. Édouard Manet's last major work, "A Bar at the Folies-Bergère" (1882, Courtauld Gallery), shows a barmaid facing us with a crowded hall reflected in the mirror behind her.
A "Café Terrace at Night" at 60 to 90 cm works well in a dining area, and the wide Renoir fills a long wall.
