Three Studies of a Dancer in Fourth Position
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1879/80 · Charcoal and pastel with stumping, and touches of brush and black wash, on grayish-tan laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on gray wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Three Studies of a Dancer in Fourth Position is a public-domain drawing by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, dated 1879/80. Charcoal and pastel with stumping, and touches of brush and black wash, on grayish-tan laid paper with blue fibers, laid down on gray wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Three Studies of a Dancer in Fourth Position” (1879/80) is cropped the way Degas liked: dancers, bathers, or a room seen as if glanced at, not arranged for a formal portrait.
About the artist
Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French artist of dancers, bathers, races, and ordinary rooms. He drew constantly and often cropped a scene as if it had been glanced at, rather than posed for a formal portrait.
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