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.

[1] 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.

This instant view of the cafe is the right side of the larger painting.

According to Duret and Moreau-Nelataon, the waitress agreed to go to Manet's studio, rue d'Amsterdam, to pose.