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I was browsing art on the net and saw a Waterhouse painting of his wife(I assume)called Ester Kenworthy Waterhouse.
I found it an amazing similarity to the woman featured in Degas L'Absinthe painting.
The same hat, very similar features, even tho they were painted 10 years apart.

Whadyathink?

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http://www.johnwilliamwaterhouse.com/images/content/waterhouse/hi/209.jpg

http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/degas/absinthe/degas.absinthe-2.jpg

Are these the two pictures?

The women are very similar!

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I agree they're similar..

Now I'm going to have to look up Waterhouse..

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She was a painter too. Here's the Wikipedia link on her -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Kenworthy

Seems unlikely that she was a model for Degas.

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ossobuco wrote:

Seems unlikely that she was a model for Degas.

The woman in the Dégas painting is the actress Ellen Andrée, the man Marcellin Desboutin, painter, engraver and, at the same time, celebrated Bohemian character.
The café where they are taking their refreshment is the Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes.

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Hah, I looked up Waterhouse but not the Degas painting..

Well, then, that settles that.

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Walter Hinteler wrote:

The café where they are taking their refreshment is the Café de la Nouvelle-Athènes.

That caf´, by the way, was quite popular among the painters in Paris in those days ...

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I used to love that painting.. had a poster of it on my wall when I was going to university. I still like it but have a thousand other "favorites" since.

Is the cafe still there? Have you been to it, Walter?

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That café was demolished in/about 1914

But I've been to the Cafè/Bar Chat Noir .... unfortunately, I deleted all my photos I've made when I was in Paris recently by error Embarrassed

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Oh! Oof!

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