1856
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
René-Hilaire de Gas, Grandfather of the Artist is a 1856 ink by Edgar Degas, a Impressionism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This sketch shows a side view of an older man with a hat pulled low over his face. The lines are loose and scratchy, almost like quick notes. There’s a smaller sketch of another face in the top left corner. The artist used a technique that leaves dark lines by scraping metal, not just ink. That’s how the marks look so sharp and uneven. Next, check out etching to see how artists create prints like this.
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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