L'Absinthe
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' (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was ', a name often used today.
Key facts
- Artwork.year
- 1875–76
- Artwork.image_file
- Edgar_Degas - In a Café - Google Art Project 2.jpg
- Artwork.artist
- Edgar Degas
- Artwork.medium
- Oil on canvas
- Artwork.height_metric
- 92
- Artwork.width_metric
- 68
- Artwork.height_imperial
- 36
- Artwork.width_imperial
- 26.8
- Artwork.metric_unit
- cm
- Artwork.imperial_unit
- in
- Artwork.museum
- Musée d'Orsay
- Artwork.city
- Paris
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Country
- France
- Owned by
- Isaac de Camondo
- Genre
- genre art
- Depicts
- mirror image
- Movement
- Impressionism
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Edgar Degas
- Collection
- Musée d'Orsay
- Location
- Musée d'Orsay
- Image
- Edgar Degas - In a Café - Google Art Project 2.jpg
- Height
- 920
- Width
- 680
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- inventory number
- RF 1984
- exhibition history
- 2nd impressionist exhibition
- Commons category
- L'Absinthe by Edgar Degas
- IIIF manifest URL
- iiif.musee-orsay.fr/Manifester/IIIF/3/objects!1147/manifest.json
- inception
- 1876-01-01
- catalog code
- 393
- title
- L’Absinthe
- copyright status
- public domain
- different from
- absinthe
- model
- Marcellin Desboutin
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Description
- Reception
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
' (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was , 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 , the name by which the painting is now commonly known. It is in the permanent collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “L'Absinthe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.