Ploughed Field Bordered by Trees

Prints and Drawings

c. 1892

Edgar Degas
French, 1834-1917

This work shows how Degas adapted his monotype prints. First, on the printing plate, he manipulated diluted oil paint with cloth pads and coarse bristle brushes. Having transferred these textural effects to the paper, he added pastel over the monotype, lending definition to the leaves and branches of the trees.

In November 1892, Degas’s monotype landscapes were the subject of an exhibition at the gallery of Paul Durand-Ruel. One critic heralded it as the “event of the season.” The show included between 24 and 26 images of this kind; the art dealer purchased them all, at the considerable price of 1000 francs each.

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Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Ploughed Field Bordered by Trees
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1887–1897
Medium: Pastel, over color monotype, on off-white wove paper, laid down on cream card
Inscriptions: Inscribed verso, upper right, in graphite: "34"; in black ballpoint pen: "5 / 23"
Dimensions: Image: 25.3 × 34.5 cm (10 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 27 × 35.9 cm (10 11/16 × 14 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.922
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Paul-André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre II (Paris, 1946), pp. 358–59, cat. 634 (ill.).
Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 116, cat. 646 (ill.).
Richard Kendall, Degas Landscapes (New Haven, Conn., 1993), pp., 196, 276, cat. 8, p. 289 n. 51.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), pp. 136-137, cat. 95 (ill.).

Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, pp. 136-137, cat. 95 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” March 15-June 15, 2014, no cat.

Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 658), recto, lower left, in red]; sold, Galerie Georges Petit, July 2–4, 1919, lot 37, to Henri Cottevielle, Paris; by descent; sold, Sotheby’s, London, June 29, 1999, lot 227, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Lemoisne 634

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