Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) · 1877–78 · lithograph
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About this picture
Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs is a CC0 illustration by Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917), dated 1877–78. Lithograph. The file comes from Cleveland Museum of Art.
“Mlle Bécat at the Café des Ambassadeurs” (1877–78) 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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