Study of a Singer
Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas
1878/80
Medium
Charcoal and fabricated black chalk, with touches of white chalk, on greenish gray wove paper, perimeter mounted to millboard
Dimensions
49.2 × 63.7 cm (19 3/8 × 25 1/8 in.)
Classification
charcoal
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202353
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...