Ploughed Field Bordered by Trees
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · c. 1892 · Pastel, over color monotype, on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream card
Public domain
Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Ploughed Field Bordered by Trees is a public-domain drawing by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, dated c. 1892. Pastel, over color monotype, on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream card. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Ploughed Field Bordered by Trees” (c. 1892) 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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