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Lautrec has taken up the subject of Degas's Absinthe and used it to express the hopeless loneliness and alienation of the two people portrayed. In both paintings a couple sit in front of a wall mirror, behind a table, and the bottle and glasses stand as a barrier between viewer and figures. Lautrec, however, directs the viewer's attention to the painful differences between the well-fed bourgeois and the pale, undernourished employee, who is pointedly turning away from her neighbour.
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