In the Salon
c. 1880s
Edgar Degas
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
Prints
In the Salon, c. 1880s. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Monotype; sheet: 24.5 x 18.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.); image: 11.9 x 16 cm (4 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1977.44 Edgar Degas's series of monotypes depicting brothels depicted a hidden aspect of Parisian life. Degas's interest in the subject paralleled the theme of the prostitute in naturalist novels of the era by Emile Zola and Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, and echoed the then-contemporary debate about the regulation—or abolition—of prostitution in Paris. In this print, three women await their clients under a luminous globed chandelier. A standing figure reaches out her left arm as if to beckon an unseen visitor. Edgar Degas's series of brothel monotypes was never exhibited during his lifetime and remained in the privacy of the artist's studio until his death.
- Maker/Artist
- Degas, Edgar
- Classification
- Formatted Medium
- monotype
- Medium
- monotype
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 24.5 x 18.8 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/8 in.); Image: 11.9 x 16 cm (4 11/16 x 6 5/16 in.)
- Departments
- Prints
- Accession Number
- 1977.44
- Credit Line
- Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Exhibitions
- Year in Review: 1977, Degas 1879, Monotypes, Urban Vicissitudes, Degas Monotypes, Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints, Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris, Monotypes: Painterly Prints, Innovative Impressions: Cassatt, Degas, and Pissarro as Painter-Printmakers, <em>Degas 1879</em>. National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (August 13 - September 30, 1979).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
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