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Study for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre" [recto]
Edgar Degas · c. 1879 · graphite with blind stylus on wove paper
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About this picture
Study for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre" [recto] is a public-domain drawing by Edgar Degas, dated c. 1879. Graphite with blind stylus on wove paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Study for "Mary Cassatt at the Louvre" [recto]” (c. 1879) 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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