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L'Absinthe (English: The Absinthe Drinker or Glass of Absinthe) is a painting by Edgar Degas, painted between 1875 and 1876. [1] Its original title was Dans un Café, [2] a name often used today. [3] Other early titles were A sketch of a French Café and Figures at Café.
Painters such as Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec portrayed artists and visitors at the caf'conc and almost every vaudeville and music hall entertainer that mattered in those days performed in Les Ambass' . In the 1920s, the venue was transformed into an American-style music hall, which had American and African-American artists ...
In 1874, a few artists met at the cafe to plan the first Impressionism painting exhibition. [3] Degas painted L'Absinthe in this place. Another notable denizen was the eccentric composer Erik Satie, who played the piano in the cafe, and was there introduced to a fifteen-year-old Maurice Ravel by Ravel's father.
Café-Concert at Les Ambassadeurs (French - Le Café-concert aux ambassadeurs) is a monotype pastel by Edgar Degas of the cafe-concert at the Café des Ambassadeurs café-concert. It was first exhibited in 1877 at an Impressionist exhibition and is now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.
Edgar Degas, 1876–77. The singer is probably Victorine Demay. Les Ambassadeurs was a restaurant in Paris, France, situated in the Hôtel de Crillon. It closed on March 31, 2013, when the hotel closed for renovations, and in 2017 the space reopened as a bar, with Les Ambassadeurs being replaced by a smaller restaurant.
Edgar Degas (UK: / ˈ d eɪ ɡ ɑː /, US: / d eɪ ˈ ɡ ɑː, d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː /; [1] [2] born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, French: [ilɛːʁ ʒɛʁmɛ̃ ɛdɡaʁ də ɡa]; 19 July 1834 – 27 September 1917) was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. Degas also produced bronze sculptures, prints, and ...
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Edgar Degas, Singer with a Glove, 1878, Fogg Museum Singer with a Glove by Edgar Degas, originally titled Chanteuse de Café, la chanteuse au gant, is an 1878 pastel drawing on canvas 53.2 x 41 cm. Degas was a French artist known for his pastels, paintings, sculptures, prints, and charcoal drawings. [1]