Woman Embroidering
Edgar Degas · 1855/1860 · black chalk and graphite heightened with white on wove paper
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About this picture
Woman Embroidering is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated 1855/1860. Black chalk and graphite heightened with white on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Woman Embroidering” (1855/1860) 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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