1880
ink
paper
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery is a 1880 ink by Edgar Degas, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This print shows two women sitting on a stone bench in a dim room. The wall behind them is covered in framed paintings, but the details are blurry. One woman faces forward, while the other looks at a painting on the wall. The rough texture of the paper and the grainy lines suggest it’s an etching, not a painted picture. The artist used shading to show fabric folds and the women’s poses. Check out etching to see how artists like Degas made prints with acid and needles.
Born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas on 19 July 1834 in Paris, Edgar Degas came from an affluent banking family with aristocratic roots and spent his childhood among the cultivated circles of the French capital.
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