A man and woman, both with pale, peachy skin, sit on opposite sides of a burgundy-red, low-backed sofa in a room wallpapered with a striped, floral pattern in this vertical painting. To our left, the woman sits with her body facing us, and she looks at us with dark eyes under dark, arched brows. She has an oval face, a straight nose, and her coral-pink lips are closed. The woman’s dark brown hair is parted down the middle, and smoothed and pulled back to the base of her head. Her pinkish-tan dress has a narrow white collar and a full, billowing skirt. A loosely painted, crimson-red shawl…
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Edmondo and Thérèse Morbilli

Edgar Degas (French, 1834 - 1917)

c. 1865

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 117.2 x 89.7 cm (46 1/8 x 35 5/16 in.) ; framed: 141.6 x 114.9 cm (55 3/4 x 45 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Chester Dale Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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