Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon
Edgar Degas · c. 1871 · Oil on mattress ticking
Public domain
Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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About this picture
Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon is a public-domain painting by Edgar Degas, dated c. 1871. Oil on mattress ticking. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“Portrait of Mlle. Hortense Valpinçon” (c. 1871) 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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