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Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery
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Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery

Medium

Soft-ground, drypoint, aquatint, and etching; third state of nine

Dimensions

Plate: 10 9/16 x 9 1/8 in. (26.8 x 23.2 cm) Sheet: 17 x 12 in. (43.2 x 30.5 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1919

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Edgar Degas

1834–1917France

Edgar Degas (1834-1917) stands as one of the most innovative artists of the nineteenth century, whose distinctive vision transformed how modern life could be depicted on canvas. Born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas in Paris to a wealthy banking family—his father French, his mother a Louisiana Creole from New Orleans—Degas received a classical education before abandoning law studies in 1855 to pursue art. Never marrying and maintaining a reclusive lifestyle, he devoted himself entirely to his craft, becoming both a brilliant conversationalist in artistic circles and a fiercely independent painter.