The Café-Concert

ca. 1879

39.1 cm 47.3 cm

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Manet was the quintessential "Painter of Modern Life," a phrase coined by art critic and poet Charles Baudelaire. In 1878-79, he painted a number of scenes set in the Cabaret de Reichshoffen on the Boulevard Rochechouart, where women on the fringes of society freely intermingl...

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Boussaton, 1881; Boussaton Sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 15, 1891, no. 61; A. M. Haviland, Limoges [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; J. B. Faure, Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Collection J. B. Faure Sale, Paris, 1902, no. 38; Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1907 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1909, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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