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Victoria Dubourg
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About this work
This drawing is one of several studies that Edgar Degas created for a painted portrait of the artist Victoria Dubourg, now in the collection of the Toledo Museum of Art. Here, Degas concentrated on the facial expression of Dubourg, known for her still-lifes of flowers. Attempting to precisely render Dubourg's direct gaze, Degas drew her eyes in greater detail, even adding an additional sketch along the sheet's upper margin.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineVictoria Dubourg, c. 1866. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Graphite; sheet: 30.9 x 21.9 cm (12 3/16 x 8 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection, 1951.483
