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Caricatures of Napoleon III and Otto von Bismarck, from Notebook no. 21
Edgar Degas French
Not on view
Though politics were rarely an explicit subject of Degas’s work, these private sketches show that the conflict between France and Prussia—personified here by caricatures of Napoleon III on the left and Otto von Bismarck on the right—certainly occupied his thoughts. The only direct artistic products of his wartime experience were portraits of fellow veterans completed in early 1871.
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