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L'Absinthe
Edgar Degas

L'Absinthe

1875Musée d'Orsay; Isaac de Camondo · Paris

L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today. Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café. Then, when exhibited in London in 1893, the title was changed to L'Absinthe, the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.

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smoking, tray, brown hair, Marcellin Desboutin, banquette, mirror image, chignon, dress shirt, sitting, Café de la Nouvelle Athènes, bangs, Ellen Andrée, jacket, blond hair, bar, absinthe, sadness, dress, hat, table, cup, bottle, moustache, café, actor, necktie, beard, mirror, trousers, alcoholism, man, woman, Paris, alcoholic beverage

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