Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1879 · Distemper, metallic paint, and pastel, on canvas
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Marked public domain (CC0) by the Art Institute of Chicago.
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About this picture
Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin) is a public-domain drawing by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, dated 1879. Distemper, metallic paint, and pastel, on canvas. The file comes from Art Institute of Chicago.
“Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)” (1879) 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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