EURO Degas Works on Paper [2]

On Stage III

The Dog Song

Singer at a Café-Concert

Though Degas exhibited with the Impressionists, he was largely uninterested in landscape painting and in depicting the effects of natural light. Degas drew instead upon his classical training in draftsmanship and preferred to work in the studio. Like the Impressionists, however, Degas developed an interest in Japanese prints, especially in regard to their unusual cropping […]

Landscape with Rocks

Rustling orange grasses dabbed with touches of blue evoke the peaceful arrival of fall in the hills. Degas created this monotype, which combines printing and drawing, in the two years following a visit to Burgundy, France. He called it an “imaginary landscape,” as he created it from memory—a method he preferred over working directly from […]

Head of Saint Symphorien, after J. A. D. Ingres

The Artist’s Aunt

Study of Two Dancers

In his many studies of ballet dancers Degas sought to reveal the hard work that went into creating the illusion of the glamour of dance. He was particularly interested in depictions of dancers off-stage or in rehearsal. The two poses seen here—the brooding dancer with her head in her hands and the dancer adjusting a […]