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Estérel Village

c. 1890

Edgar Degas

(French, 1834–1917)
Culture
France, 19th century
Medium
color monotype
Support
Beige (2) laid paper
Measurements
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.)
Credit Line
Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1966.177
Catalogue raisonné
Janis 276
Public Domain
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Location
Not on view
Print
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Did You Know?

Edgar Degas made a total of about 60 similarly abstract landscapes using monotype around the time he made this print.

Description

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.
Print of a splotchy, grainy landscape with beige paper showing through as the sky in the upper third, and a hill speckled with orange-brown in the lower third, blotches of green and brown in the center third, and, in the upper third, a rectangular orange-brown structure with specks of black jutting from the top.

Estérel Village

c. 1890

Edgar Degas

(French, 1834–1917)
France, 19th century

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