The Café-Concert  1879

Depicted place: Cabaret de Reischoffen, Boulevard de Rochechouart, Paris [br] 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 intermingled with well-heeled...