Painted in 1886, it is held in the collection of Colombia's Bank of the Republic and exhibited at the Museo Botero, in Bogotá.

[1] The work depicts an anonymous woman drinking absinthe at Le Mirliton, a cabaret.

Under low light, she is staring into the distance, most likely watching the theatrical entertainment of the venue.

Painted towards the opening of Bruant's cabaret, the Absinthe Drinker in Grenelle was one of the first paintings that Toulouse-Lautrec dedicated to the theme of solitary drinkers, a very common theme in this period of French painting, with examples by Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Pablo Picasso in his blue period.

[2]: 46 Toulouse-Lautrec, as a heavy drinker himself, found many of the subjects for his paintings in cabaret and brothel scenes.