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René de Gas [recto]
Edgar Degas · 1855 · graphite 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
René de Gas [recto] is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated 1855. Graphite on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“René de Gas [recto]” (1855) 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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