Who created "At the Café des Ambassadeurs"?

At the Café des Ambassadeurs was created by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas in 1879–80.

When was "At the Café des Ambassadeurs" created?

This artwork was created 1879–80.

What medium is "At the Café des Ambassadeurs"?

At the Café des Ambassadeurs is Etching, softground, drypoint, and aquatint in black on cream wove paper.

At the Café des Ambassadeurs

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

1879–80

Medium

Etching, softground, drypoint, and aquatint in black on cream wove paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 26.5 × 29.4 cm (10 7/16 × 11 5/8 in.); Sheet: 32.6 × 49.2 cm (12 7/8 × 19 3/8 in.)

Classification

etching

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

211880

About the Artist

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas · 1834–1917

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas, born on July 19, 1834, in Paris to a prosperous banking family, was the eldest of five children. His mother, Célestine Musson, a Creole from New Orleans whose father Germain Musson had roots in Haiti, died when Degas was thirteen, leaving his father Augustin and unmarried uncles to guide him. Educated at the elite Lycée Louis-le-Grand, where he earned a baccalauréat in...

At the Café des Ambassadeurs

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