L'Absinthe
by Georgia Clare
Title
L'Absinthe
Artist
Georgia Clare
Medium
Digital Art - Oil On Canvas
Description
L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas. Some original title translations are A sketch of a French Cafe, then Figures at Cafe, the title was finally changed in 1893 to L'Absinthe (the name the piece is known by today). It is now in the permanent collection of the Mus�e d'Orsay in Paris.
Painted in 1875 -1876, the picture depicts two figures, a woman and man, who sit at the center and right of this painting, respectively. The man, wearing a hat, looks to the right, off the canvas, while the woman, dressed formally and also wearing a hat, stares vacantly downward. A glass filled with the eponymous greenish liquid sits before her. The painting is a representation of the increasing social isolation in Paris during its stage of rapid growth. The woman in the painting is Ellen Andree, actress, and the man is Marcellin Desboutin, a painter, printmaker and bohemian. The cafe where they are taking their refreshment is the Cafe de la Nouvelle-Athenes in Paris.
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May 7th, 2013
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