A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Edgar Degas French

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 810

Degas painted this work in the fall of 1865, after the Salon that presented his Scene of War in the Middle Ages and Manet’s Olympia. The remarkable composition destabilizes traditional categories of painting: it is neither a grand still life of flowers nor a portrait. The sitter is probably the wife of the artist’s schoolboy friend Paul Valpinçon, whose country house Degas immensely enjoyed visiting.

#6170. A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

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A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?), Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834–1917 Paris), Oil on canvas

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