In A Café
1873
Edgar Degas captured a moment of profound urban isolation in this 1873 masterpiece. The woman stares blankly ahead, a glass of pale green absinthe sitting before her, while her companion gazes in the opposite direction, completely lost in his own world. Despite sitting just inches apart, the two figures couldn't seem further away from each other. Interestingly, the models were actually Degas's friends just posing for a portrait, but the public was so scandalized by their apparent drunken misery that it sparked a massive moral panic in Victorian London!
- Technique
- Oil painting
- Material
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 92 cm × 68 cm
Location: Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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