The Infanta Margarita, after Velázquez

Edgar Degas French
 After Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) Spanish

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Manet and Degas purportedly met at the Louvre in front of the Portrait of the Infanta Margarita Teresa (1654), a painting attributed at the time to the seventeenth-century Spanish painter Diego Velázquez. Degas recalled that he was working on the copperplate for this print when Manet stopped to comment, “How audacious of you to etch that way, without any preliminary drawing, I would not dare do the same!”—an exchange that marked the beginning of their enduring friendship.

The Infanta Margarita, after Velázquez, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Etching and drypoint; second state of two (only known impression)

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The Infanta Margarita, after Velázquez, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Etching and drypoint; second state of two (only known impression)
The Infanta Margarita, after Velázquez, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Etching and drypoint; second state of two (only known impression)

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