Throughout history, absinthe has been used to stimulate mind and provide insight and inspiration.
Famous Absinthe Users
- William Blake
- Edouard Manet
- Charles Baudelaire
- Paul Verlaine
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Charles Cros
- Guy de Maupassant
- Oscar Wilde
- Ernest Dowson
- Edgar Degas
- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Vincent Van Gogh
- Adolphe Monticelli
- Paul Gauguin
- Alfred Jarry
- Pablo Picasso
- Anaïs Nin
- Ernest Hemingway
- Marilyn Manson
Visual Artworks Inspired by Absinthe
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Edouard Manet’s 1859 The Absinthe Drinker
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Jean-Francois Raffaelli’s 1861 Absinthe Drinkers
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Honore Daumier’s 1863 Absinthe Lithographs
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Edgar Degas’ 1876 L’Absinthe
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1887 Portrait of Van Gogh
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Vincent Van Gogh’s 1887 Still Life with Absinthe
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec 1893 Monsieur Boileau at the Cafe
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Pablo Picasso 1901 Harlequin and his Companion
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Pablo Picasso 1901 The Poet Cornuty
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Pablo Picasso 1901 The Absinthe Drinker
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Pablo Picasso 1902 The Absinthe Drinker
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Pablo Picasso 1911 Glass of Absinthe
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Viktor Oliva 1901 Absinthe Drinker
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