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Landscape
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
1892
- Medium
- Pastel, over color monotype, with wiping and incising, on pink wove paper (discolored to tan)
- Classification
- Drawing and Watercolor
- Dimensions
- Image: 25.5 × 34.5 cm (10 1/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 35 cm (10 5/16 × 13 13/16 in.)
- Culture
- France
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
Although Degas’s depictions of nature are among his lesser-known works, he was a talented landscape artist, as this vibrant pastel indicates. The rich range of greens creates a velvet-like effect. Earth tones differentiate the undulating hills. The paper support, though discolored from pink to tan, still lends a sense of warmth. The pastel on this sheet covers a unique printed image made by the artist. Degas produced many color monotypes in this period. However, while some of the prints were nearly abstract, here the scene is more legible. Juxtapositions of printed and hand-applied colors show Degas’s reworking. The winding road, for instance, was scored in with a brush handle.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
