Art, literature & history
Das leere Café (The Empty Café)
1918
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- pen and black ink with crayons on wove paper
- Dimensions
- overall: 33.9 x 26.2 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.)
- Collection no.
- 2007.71.2
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Walter Gramatté. Das leere Café (The Empty Café). Walter Gramatté; This file was donated to Wikimedia Commons as part of a project by the National Gallery of Art . Please see the Gallery's Open Access Policy .. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Walter_Gramatt%C3%A9,_Das_leere_Caf%C3%A9_(The_Empty_Caf%C3%A9),_1918,_NGA_138470.jpg. CC0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
Das leere Café (The Empty Café) — Walter Gramatté. 1918.
Medium: pen and black ink with crayons on wove paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 33.9 x 26.2 cm (13 3/8 x 10 5/16 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2007.71.2. Merritt Porter Dyke Fund.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.