1890
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Estérel Village is a 1890 by Edgar Degas, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This painting shows a hazy French village with soft, layered colors. It’s one of Degas’s many monotypes—prints made by painting on a smooth surface, then pressing paper on top. The blurry edges mimic how things look from a moving carriage or train. He built up texture to suggest weather and terrain, almost like abstract art. The scene feels quiet, but full of small details if you look close. Want more like this? Check out Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917).
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.
Edgar Degas made a total of about 60 similarly abstract landscapes using monotype around the time he made this print.
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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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