The Infanta Margarita, after Velázquez
Edgar Degas French
After Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) Spanish
Not on view
Degas was still relatively new to the practice of etching when he undertook this work, but he would become one of his century's greatest printmakers. Both he and Manet followed the etching practices of Goya (also a copier of Velázquez), clumping together masses of brittle, parallel lines.
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