17.1965: The Absinthe Drinker

Identification and Creation

Object Number

17.1965

People

Edouard Manet, French (Paris 1832 - 1883 Paris)

Title

The Absinthe Drinker

Other Titles

Original Language Title: Le buveur d'absinthe

Classification

Prints

Work Type

print

Date

1861-1862

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/236309

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Etching on Japanese paper

Technique

Etching

Dimensions

28.9 x 16 cm (11 3/8 x 6 5/16 in.)

State, Edition, Standard Reference Number

State

ii/iii

Standard Reference Number

G. 9, H. 16

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Loan from the Collection of Edouard Sandoz

Object Number

17.1965

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Michel Melot, The Impressionist Print, Yale University Press (New Haven, CT, 1996), repr. as fig. 61 on p. 56 [not Harvard impression; related bibliography]
• Charles Baudelaire, The Parisian Prowler: Le Spleen de Paris, Petits Poèmes en prose, The University of Georgia Press (Athens, GA and London, England, 1997), p. 88

Exhibition History

• Body Image in French Art and Visual Culture (18th and 19th Centuries), Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/23/2016 - 05/08/2016
• A Colloquium in the Visual Arts , Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022
• A Colloquium in the Visual Arts, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/02/2023 - 12/30/2023

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