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Subjects : Food, Genre scenes
Keywords : Impressionism, absinthe, alcohol, bar, boredom, coffee, drink, loneliness, man, mirror, sadness, table, woman
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L'absinthe, dit aussi Dans un café

Dans un café - also known as L'Absinthe - is a famous painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876 in Paris and now in the Musée d'Orsay. Dans un café (or L'Absinthe) is an oil on canvas measuring 92 × 68.5 cm. The signature "Degas" appears in the lower left-hand corner, inscribed by the painter on the page of a newspaper rolled up on a reading stand. The two figures depicted, a woman and a man, are the actress Ellen Andrée and the painter and engraver Marcellin Desboutin. Both were also painted by Édouard Manet. In front of the woman is a glass filled with absinthe, a green liquor that takes on a glassy, pearly hue when mixed with water. The woman's gaze is downcast (vague, staring at an obscure point), or looks tired, her shoulders hunched. The man is smoking a pipe and looking around the room on the right, out of frame. The dominant tones used by the artist are grey, brown and black: the grey of the marble of the café tables, the newspapers, the smoky curtains and the faces"; the brown of the benches and the dress; the black of the man's suit and the shadows". The scene takes place in the Café de la Nouvelle Athènes on Place Pigalle, then a meeting place for the Impressionists. From the point of view of style, Degas innovated here with his atypical treatment of framing, here off-centre, whose violent asymmetry underlines the isolation of the figures: the man's hand and pipe are cut off, and the table and newspaper in the left foreground are sectioned in an [...]

 

This artwork is a painting from the modern period. It belongs to the impressionism style.

 

« L'absinthe, dit aussi Dans un café » is kept at Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.

 

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