1877 (ca.), Edouard Manet, Plum Brandy (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Following Degas's In a Café (The Absinthe Drinker), on view nearby, Manet evoked the same setting of the Nouvelle-Athènes and selected the same model, the actress Ellen Andrée, for his own café scene. Although centered on a woman alone with her drink, which in popular imagery of the time often implied moral indecency, her identity is ambiguous. Resting her head in hand, as she ignores her brandy-soaked plum and unlit cigarette, she gazes wistfully into the distance, conveying a sense of urban isolation similar to that evoked in Degas's painting.
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1877 (ca.), Edouard Manet, Plum Brandy (detail) -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Following Degas's In a Café (The Absinthe Drinker), on view nearby, Manet evoked the same setting of the Nouvelle-Athènes and selected the same model, the actress Ellen Andrée, for his own café scene. Although centered on a woman alone with her drink, which in popular imagery of the time often implied moral indecency, her identity is ambiguous. Resting her head in hand, as she ignores her brandy-soaked plum and unlit cigarette, she gazes wistfully into the distance, conveying a sense of urban isolation similar to that evoked in Degas's painting.
Link to the full painting.
Link to other paintings from the exhibition “Manet/Degas".
Link to other Manet paintings.