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Who painted it?

Who painted “L'Absinthe”?

“L'Absinthe” was painted by Edgar Degas in 1876. Where to see it: Musée d'Orsay.

Impressionism

What to look for

Edgar Degas: dancers, laundresses and horse races caught off-centre as if by a camera, pastel strokes, odd cropped viewpoints.

Edgar Degas (19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Wikipedia

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More by Edgar Degas

• “The Bellelli Family”, 1858
• “Dancer Posing for a Photographer (Dancer in Front of the Window)”, 1875
• “A Cotton Office in New Orleans”, 1873
• “Place de la Concorde”, 1875
• “The Ballet Class”, 1871
• “After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself”, 1890–1895
• “Mr. and Mrs. Édouard Manet”, 1868
• “Young Spartans Exercising”, 1860