The painting was shown again at the Grafton Gallery in England in 1893, this time entitled , where it sparked even greater controversy. The people and the absinthe represented in the painting were considered by English critics to be shockingly degraded and uncouth.
The painting was shown again at the Grafton Gallery in England in 1893, now with a different title, . This exhibition caused even more debate among critics.  English commentators found the figures and the absinthe depicted in the artwork to be shockingly vulgar and unrefined.