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The Engraver Joseph Tourny (Le graveur Joseph Tourny), Edgar Degas, Public domain

The Engraver Joseph Tourny (Le graveur Joseph Tourny)

Edgar Degas · 1857 (third printing) · etching on laid paper

Public domain

Open Access image from the National Gallery of Art, marked free for any use.

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About this picture

The Engraver Joseph Tourny (Le graveur Joseph Tourny) is a public-domain illustration by Edgar Degas, dated 1857 (third printing). Etching on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.

“The Engraver Joseph Tourny (Le graveur Joseph Tourny)” (1857 (third printing)) 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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