Who created "Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening"?

Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening was created by Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas in c. 1876.

When was "Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening" created?

This artwork was created c. 1876.

What medium is "Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening"?

Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening is Monotype on ivory wove paper.

Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening

Hilaire Germain Edgar Degas

c. 1876

Medium

Monotype on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

Image: 27 × 29.8 cm (10 11/16 × 11 3/4 in.); Sheet: 46.5 × 54.9 cm (18 5/16 × 21 5/8 in.)

Classification

monotype

Department

Prints and Drawings

Museum

Art Institute of Chicago

Accession Number

76042

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...

Women on the Terrace of a Café in the Evening

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