![]() Manet continued to revise the work after 1859 and inserted the same cloaked figure into his 1862 painting The Old Musician. Refusal of other works by young painters led eventually to the creation of the Salon des Refusés in 1863. Stuckey, the painting presented in 1859 may have been significantly different and inferior to the current version, with the subject's legs and the absinthe glass not depicted. The painting, however, also has technical faults it is unevenly finished, with brushstrokes visible in places, and the legs join awkwardly with the subject's body. Part of the reason for its rejection may be its subject absinthe was thought to be addictive and considered morally degenerate, and this was one of the earliest depictions of absinthe in art. It was rejected with only Eugène Delacroix voting in its favour. ![]() The Absinthe Drinker was the first work that Manet submitted to the Paris Salon in 1859. It is you who have lost your moral sense." Asked for his opinion, Couture is said to have retorted: "An absinthe drinker! And they paint abominations like that! My poor friend, you are the absinthe drinker. ![]() Near the completion of the painting, Manet showed the work to his former master. Manet may have taken inspiration from the poem Le Vin des chiffonniers ("The rag-pickers' wine") in Charles Baudelaire's 1857 collection Les Fleurs du mal, from the paintings of ordinary people by Diego Velázquez (particularly his paintings of Aesop and Menippus), and from Watteau's L'Indifférent. Influenced by the realism of Gustave Courbet, the work shows a mundane subject on a large scale, measuring 180.5 centimetres (71.1 in) high by 105.6 centimetres (41.6 in) wide. Manet later added a half-full glass of absinthe on the ledge. The subject is standing, wears a black top hat and is wrapped in a brown cloak, like an aristocrat he leans on a ledge with the empty bottle discarded on the floor by his feet. Collardet is painted in mostly brown, grey and black tones. The Absinthe Drinker is a full-length portrait of an alcoholic chiffonnier ( rag-picker) named Collardet who frequented that area around the Louvre in Paris. Little of Manet's earliest work survives and much may have been destroyed by Manet himself. Manet became a student in the studio of Thomas Couture from 1850 but over time he grew to dislike his master's Salon style and thereafter set up his own studio in 1856. It is now in the collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark. 1859, considered to be his first major painting and first original work. The Absinthe Drinker (French: Le Buveur d'absinthe) is an early painting by Édouard Manet, executed c.
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