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Edgar Degas · 1876

L'Absinthe

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Degas's coolly observed Paris café — a woman alone with her absinthe, her slumped companion beside her. A study of modern urban loneliness that scandalized Victorian audiences.

Up to 20 × 24 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

2024

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Materials & quality

Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of L'Absinthe

L'Absinthe is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. Its original title was Dans un Café, a name often used today.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Edgar Degas

Edgar Degas was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.