Mme. Michel Musson and Her Daughters, Estelle and Désirée
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · January 6, 1865 · Watercolor, with touches of charcoal, brush and red chalk wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Mme. Michel Musson and Her Daughters, Estelle and Désirée is a public-domain drawing by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, dated January 6, 1865. Watercolor, with touches of charcoal, brush and red chalk wash, heightened with white gouache, over graphite on cream wove paper. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Mme. Michel Musson and Her Daughters, Estelle and Désirée” (January 6, 1865) 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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