Corner of a Café-Concert

Corner of a Café-Concert is an 1879 oil on canvas painting by Édouard Manet, now in the National Gallery, London. It is related to his The Waitress.^[1]

Corner of a Café-Concert (1879) by Édouard Manet

The two café-concerts

In August 1874, Manet began work on a large painting of the Brasserie de Reichshoffen Café-concert in the Reichshoffen, where he was fascinated by the skill of the waitresses. While working on the picture, he drastically changed his plans and cut it into two parts which he developed independently, completing each half separately.^[2] The left half is titled Au café.

This instant view of the cafe is the right side of the larger painting. The model of the beer waitress of the Coin de café-concert is one of the waitresses of the Reichshoffen brewery. According to Duret and Moreau-Nelataon, the waitress agreed to go to Manet's studio, rue d'Amsterdam, to pose.^[3]

See also

• List of paintings by Édouard Manet