Landscape

1892
Not on view
Degas undertook a series of landscape monotypes during a visit in October 1890 to the Burgundian estate of his friend, the artist Pierre-Georges Jeanniot. Over the course of the next two years, he made about fifty monotypes, a group of which he exhibited at the Durand-Ruel gallery in 1892. Although the artist called these views "imaginary landscapes," the present work is thought to reflect his experience traveling through Burgundy in a horse-drawn carriage. Using colored oil paints, overlaid with scumbled pastels, Degas produced a view of a mountainous landscape, partially obscured by mist, which verges on abstraction.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Landscape
  • Artist: Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris)
  • Date: 1892
  • Medium: Monotype in oil colors, heightened with pastel
  • Dimensions: sheet: 10 x 13 3/8 in. (25.4 x 34 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, 1972
  • Object Number: 1972.636
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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