Landscape

Prints and Drawings

1892

Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917

Although Degas’s depictions of nature are among his lesser-known works, he was a talented landscape artist, as this vibrant pastel indicates. The rich range of greens creates a velvet-like effect. Earth tones differentiate the undulating hills. The paper support, though discolored from pink to tan, still lends a sense of warmth. The pastel on this sheet covers a unique printed image made by the artist. Degas produced many color monotypes in this period. However, while some of the prints were nearly abstract, here the scene is more legible. Juxtapositions of printed and hand-applied colors show Degas’s reworking. The winding road, for instance, was scored in with a brush handle.

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Artist: Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
Title: Landscape
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 1892
Medium: Pastel, over color monotype, with wiping and incising, on pink wove paper, altered to tan
Inscriptions: Inscribed recto, lower center, in graphite: "3183 Degas – Paysage – monotype pastel – msss [?] A1009"
Dimensions: Image: 25.5 × 34.5 cm (10 1/16 × 13 5/8 in.); Sheet: 26.1 × 35 cm (10 5/16 × 13 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.923
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Paul André Lemoisne, Degas et son oeuvre III (Paris, 1946), pp. 608–09, cat. 1037 (ill.).
Eugenia Parry Janis, Degas Monotypes (Cambridge, Mass., 1968), cat. 288 (ill.).
Jacques Lassaigne and Fiorella Minervino, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Degas (Milan, 1970), p. 129, cat. 964 (ill.).
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. 96 (ill.).
Sotheby’s, Impressionist & Modern Art (New York, May 3, 2006), p. 38 (ill.).

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, “Paysages de Degas,” 1892.
New York, Durand-Ruel, “Degas,” 1901.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, “Degas Landscapes,” 1993, cat. 70, fig. 179.
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. 96 (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 right, in red]; Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, from 1893. Private collection, New York, to May 1993; sold, Christie’s, New York, May 13, 1993, lot 124, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Lemoisne 1037

Janis 288

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