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Estérel Village
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About this work
This landscape is one of many monotypes that Edgar Degas produced throughout his career. The work belongs to a series Degas made while visiting a friend in the French countryside. Its blurriness resembles the view he saw out the window of trains and carriages during his travels. To translate the effects of weather and the natural terrain, he created layers of color and texture that border on abstraction in the final composition.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineEstérel Village, c. 1890. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Color monotype; sheet: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.); image: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland, 1966.177
