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    • Landscape, 1892
    Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
    Monotype in oil colors, heightened with pastel; sheet: 10 x 13 3/8 in. (25.4 x 34 cm)
    Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, 1972 (1972.636)

    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.

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    This work has been published in the Museum's Bulletin or Journal. These articles may or may not represent the most current scholarship.
  • Reff, Theodore. "Degas: A Master Among Masters." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 34, no. 4 (Spring, 1977).
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  • . The Painterly Print: Monotypes from the Seventeenth to the Twentieth Century
  • . "Outstanding Recent Acquisitions." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 31, no. 4 (Summer, 1973).
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    • Landscape, 1892
    Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)
    Monotype in oil colors, heightened with pastel; sheet: 10 x 13 3/8 in. (25.4 x 34 cm)
    Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Richard J. Bernhard Gift, 1972 (1972.636)

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