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Young Woman with Ibis
Young Woman with Ibis is an oil painting by the French Romanticist artist Edgar Degas. It dates from 1860 and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Subject & Meaning
The sources record the depiction of a woman and a bird but do not elaborate on symbolic or narrative meaning, leaving the iconographic import unspecified.
Young Woman with Ibis is a portrait painted by Edgar Degas in 1860 in oil on canvas. The work shows a young woman beside a bird identified as an ibis, the titular element that gives the painting its name. It is catalogued as a portrait in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The sources record the depiction of a woman and a bird but do not elaborate on symbolic or narrative meaning, leaving the iconographic import unspecified.
Technique & Style
Executed in 1860, Young Woman with Ibis is an oil painting on canvas by Edgar Degas. The work functions as a portrait, depicting a woman accompanied by a bird, specifically an ibis. The composition measures 100 centimetres in height by 74.9 centimetres in width and focuses on the interaction between the human subject and the animal. The painting is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
History & Provenance
Young Woman with Ibis was painted by Edgar Degas in 1860 as an oil-on-canvas portrait and is held in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The work, depicting a woman and a bird, measures 100 centimetres in height by 74.9 centimetres in width. The available sources do not specify a unique accession number for the piece, nor do they record details of its exhibition history or display location within the museum.
Overview
Edgar Degas completed "Young Woman with Ibis," an oil painting, in 1860. This work portrays a seated woman accompanied by two birds, rendered with a distinctive approach to form and color. The artwork is currently part of the collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, where it offers insight into Degas's early explorations in portraiture and figural compositions.
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Artist
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.
