Estérel Village
Medium
color monotype
Dimensions
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Classification
Department
Prints
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland
Accession Number
1966.177
Tags
male
About this artwork
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.