#genre-scene
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L'Absinthe by Edgar Degas, 1875
This one started out with a plainer name — something like 'In a Café' — before the nickname it's known by now took over, from what I can find.
Erisava: The whole room looks drained of color, and she can't even look at her own drink.
The Banjo Lesson by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1893
He's said to have painted this partly to push back against the ugly minstrel-style caricatures of Black life that were common at the time - a quieter, more tender scene instead.
Erisava: It feels like he's caught mid-note, not posed for this.
The Happy Mother by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, 1760
Cosy family scenes — nurseries, mothers, kids and dogs underfoot — seem to have become a big fashion in France around this time, a swerve from the flirting-in-gardens pictures the same painters had been selling. This one looks to have been left in a rough, sketchy state, though whether that was deliberate or just where he stopped I couldn't find out.
Erisava: Not sure which one is the mother and why she's happy.