Musée No:397.108
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Woman Ironing
Artist: Edgar Degas
Dated: 1887
Edgar Degas, (1834 –1917), was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. He participated in the first impressionist exhibition of 1874. He continued to exhibit with them until 1886 but never really considered himself a member of the group, preferring to call himself a realist or naturalist. Degas worked with models in his studio and, later in his career, from his imagination, as opposed to en plein air. He exhibited modern portraits of modern women — milliners, laundresses and ballet dancers — painted from radical perspectives.
He was interested in their movements and postures, the patterns and rhythms of their work, fascinated by the gestures like the downward pressing and circular strokes of the iron.
Artist: Edgar Degas
Dated: 1887
Edgar Degas, (1834 –1917), was a French Impressionist artist famous for his pastel drawings and oil paintings. He participated in the first impressionist exhibition of 1874. He continued to exhibit with them until 1886 but never really considered himself a member of the group, preferring to call himself a realist or naturalist. Degas worked with models in his studio and, later in his career, from his imagination, as opposed to en plein air. He exhibited modern portraits of modern women — milliners, laundresses and ballet dancers — painted from radical perspectives.
He was interested in their movements and postures, the patterns and rhythms of their work, fascinated by the gestures like the downward pressing and circular strokes of the iron.