L'Absinthe

Painting · c. 1876 · Paris, Café de la Nouvelle Athènes · Europe

Café loneliness in an off-centre frame; London critics of 1893 called it immoral

Author: Edgar Degas
Style: Impressionism — A fleeting moment of light and air, caught outdoors in separate strokes of pure colour
Century: 19th century

Made around the same time (±30 years)

1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
1865–1869 War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy · Realism · Yasnaya Polyana
1889 The Starry Night — Vincent van Gogh · Post-Impressionism · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
1893 The Scream — Edvard Munch · Expressionism · Kristiania (Oslo)
1876 Bal du moulin de la Galette — Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Impressionism · Paris, Montmartre
1875 The Gross Clinic — Thomas Eakins · Realism · Philadelphia
1877 Paris Street; Rainy Day — Gustave Caillebotte · Impressionism · Paris, Place de Dublin
1877 Swan Lake — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Romanticism · Moscow, Bolshoi Theatre