Portrait of Marguerite Degas
Edgar Degas · 19th-20th century · Black chalk on brown paper heightened with white
Public domain
Marked Public Domain by the Minneapolis Institute of Art.
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About this picture
Portrait of Marguerite Degas is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated 19th-20th century. Black chalk on brown paper heightened with white. The file comes from Minneapolis Institute of Art.
“Portrait of Marguerite Degas” (19th-20th century) 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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