Estérel Village
c. 1890
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Prints
Estérel Village, c. 1890. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Color monotype; sheet: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.); image: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1966.177 This landscape is one of many monotypes that Edgar Degas produced throughout his career. The work belongs to a series Degas made while visiting a friend in the French countryside. Its blurriness resembles the view he saw out the window of trains and carriages during his travels. To translate the effects of weather and the natural terrain, he created layers of color and texture that border on abstraction in the final composition. Edgar Degas made a total of about 60 similarly abstract landscapes using monotype around the time he made this print.
- Maker/Artist
- Degas, Edgar
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- color monotype
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.); Image: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.)
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1966.177
- Credit Line
- Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
- Exhibitions
- Monotypes, Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland, Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints, Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century, Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes, Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty, A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland, <em>Degas Landscapes</em>. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (January 21 - April 3, 1994); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (April 24 - July 3, 1994).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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