Art, literature & history
The Absinthe Drinker (Le buveur d'absinthe)
1862
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- etching on Chinese paper
- Dimensions
- image: 24.8 × 14.3 cm (9 3/4 × 5 5/8 in.) plate: 28.8 × 15.8 cm (11 5/16 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 34.5 × 22.5 cm (13 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.)
- Collection no.
- 1943.3.5754
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- CC0 1.0License details
Édouard Manet. The Absinthe Drinker (Le buveur d'absinthe). Image credit: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). Proportional resize and JPEG compression; full source frame retained.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
The Absinthe Drinker (Le buveur d'absinthe) — Edouard Manet. 1862.
Medium: etching on Chinese paper.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): image: 24.8 × 14.3 cm (9 3/4 × 5 5/8 in.) plate: 28.8 × 15.8 cm (11 5/16 × 6 1/4 in.) sheet: 34.5 × 22.5 cm (13 9/16 × 8 7/8 in.).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 1943.3.5754. Rosenwald Collection.
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.