Prints
Estérel Village
Print
Details
- Author / creator
- Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
- Object type
- Date or period
- c. 1890
- Dimensions summary
- Sheet: 29.9 × 39.9 cm; Image: 29.9 × 39.9 cm
- Place of origin
- France
- Acquisition method
- Purchase
- Credit line
- Purchased with the V&A Purchase Grant Fund, 1966
- Paper / support
- Laid paper
- State and impression
- Lifetime impression
- Catalogue raisonné
- Janis 276
About this object
This landscape is one of many monotypes that Edgar Degas produced throughout his career. The work belongs to a series Degas made while visiting a friend in the French countryside. Its blurriness resembles the view he saw out the window of trains and carriages during his travels. To translate the effects of weather and the natural terrain, he created layers of color and texture that border on abstraction in the final composition.
Materials and technique
Color monotype
