Estérel Village

Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

c. 1890

Medium

color monotype

Classification

Print

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.)

Culture

France, 19th century

Museum

Cleveland Museum of Art, Prints

Credit line

Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland

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 Cleveland Museum of Art

About this work

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.

• Impressionism
• Prints
• Landscapes
• 1800s
• France