Horses in the Meadow (Chevaux dans la prairie)
Edgar Degas · 1891/1892 · soft-ground etching
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About this picture
Horses in the Meadow (Chevaux dans la prairie) is a public-domain illustration by Edgar Degas, dated 1891/1892. Soft-ground etching. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Horses in the Meadow (Chevaux dans la prairie)” (1891/1892) 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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