Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La Toilette apres le bain (The toilette after the bath) c.1888 Pastel on paper on cardboard, 66.5 x 78.5 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
La Toilette apres le bain (c.1888)
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Deux danseuses jaunes et roses (1898)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Deux danseuses jaunes et roses (Two Dancers in Yellow and Pink) 1898 Pastel on paper, 106 x 108 cm Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Degas alternated between working with oil painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.…
Jacques, Suzanne, Blanche et Germaine Hoschedé (c.1880)
Monet, Claude (1840-1926) Jacques, Suzanne, Blanche et Germaine Hoschedé c.1880 Pastel, 97 cm Private collection See also: • Hoschedé, Germaine (1873-1968) | Hoschedé, Jacques (1869-1941) | Hoschedé Butler, Suzanne (1863-1899) | Hoschedé Monet, Blanche (1865-1947)
La modiste (1877)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La modiste (The Milliner) 1877 Pastel on paper, 53.3 x 41.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir’s slice-of-life street scene provides just enough detail to allow us to identify his young model as an apprentice…
Chanteuse de Café (c.1878)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chanteuse de Café / Chanteuse au Gant (Café Singer / Singer with a Glove) c.1878 Pastel on canvas, 53.2 x 41 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Because pastel paints can fade, this extraordinary work can be exhibited only…
La chanteuse en vert (c.1884)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) La chanteuse en vert (Singer in Green) c.1884 Pastel on light blue laid paper, 60.3 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York A sale catalogue of 1898 evocatively described the performer pictured in this pastel: “Skinny…
Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (1879)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Portrait d’Edmond Duranty (Portrait of Edmond Duranty) 1879 Gouache with pastel enlivenment on linen, 100 x 100.4 cm Burrell Collection, Glasgow See also: • Duranty, Edmond (1833-1880)
Méry Laurent au carlin (1882)
Manet, Édouard (1832-1883) Méry Laurent au carlin (Méry Laurent with a Pug) 1882 Pastel on canvas, 53 x 34 cm Pushkin Museum, Moscow See also: • Méry Laurent (1849-1900)
Chez la modiste (1881)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Chez la modiste (At the Milliner’s) 1881 Pastel on paper, 69.2 x 69.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Two customers in nearly identical dresses—perhaps a mother and daughter or two sisters—are seen from behind in a…
Femme en costume de ville (c.1879)
Degas, Edgar (1834-1917) Femme en costume de ville (Woman in Street Clothes, Portrait of Ellen Andrée) c.1879 Pastel on green-grey paper, 48.5 × 42 cm Private collection See also: • Andrée, Ellen (1857-1925)