Edgar degas art style
Edgar degas birth and death.
L'Absinthe
Painting by Edgar Degas
L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876.[1] Its original title was Dans un Café,[2] a name often used today.[3]
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.
Edgar degas family
Description
Painted in 1875–76, the work portrays a woman and man[1] sitting side-by-side, drinking a glass of absinthe. They appear lethargic and lonely.[3] The man, wearing a hat, looks to the right off the edge of the canvas, while the woman, dressed more formally in fashionable dress and hat, stares vacantly downward.
A glass filled with absinthe is on the table in front of her. The models used in the pain
