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Edgar Degas

Dancer with a Bouquet, ca. 1877-1880

Description

Maker

  • Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French

Title

Dancer with a Bouquet

Year

ca. 1877-1880

Medium

Pastel and gouache over monotype on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • pastel,
  • gouache

Dimensions

40.3 x 50.5 cm (15 7/8 x 19 7/8 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed in LL corner: Degas.

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Drawings and Watercolors

Credit

Gift of Mrs. Murray S. Danforth

Object Number

42.213

Projects & Publications

Publications

From Dürer to Van Gogh

Gifts from Eliza Greene Radeke and Helen Metcalf Danforth
Read Online

Selected Works

Edgar Degas

Six Friends At Dieppe

Vincent van Gogh and Japan

Odd Man Out

Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas

Degas

A Handbook of the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Degas

Degas Pastels

Impressionism

Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society

The Discovery of a 'Lost' Print by Degas

Degas

The Artist's Mind

Selection V

French Watercolors and Drawings, ca. 1800-1910

Edgar Degas

The Reluctant Impressionist

Exchange Exhibition, Exhibition Exchange

From the Collection of Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University; From the Collection of The Museum of Art, Rhode

Degas et son oeuvre

Degas

A Note on Degas

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Inventing Impressionism

October 21, 2016 - June 11, 2017

This image of a dancer holding a large bouquet on stage originated as a print. Degas first created a monotype—an ink drawing that he transferred onto a sheet of damp paper. (The faint embossed outline of the printing plate is still visible around the margin of the drawing.) After the monotype print was complete, Degas drew over it with bright pastel. He also added a strip of paper along the bottom of the print to expand the composition vertically, allowing for a fuller depiction of the female spectator at lower right. This unusual process, used often by Degas, allowed him to both carefully plan and experiment with his compositions.

From Dürer to Van Gogh

June 5 - October 26, 2008

Degas’s pastels provide stimulating sources of study for any art or design student investigating light, form, and composition. In this work, footlights set aglow the young dancer with a bouquet at center stage. Behind her stand two groups of ballerinas, which Degas depicted with lengthy passages of bright orange, blue, and green pastel punctuated by the occasional dot of a bright flower. As a foil to these brilliant colors, Degas bathed the immediate foreground—a balcony and spectator—in shadowy brown and black gouache. Degas began the composition with a monotype (a work whose technique allows only one printing), over which he drew with pastel. He also added a strip of paper at the bottom of the sheet in order to accommodate the addition of the figure and her dramatic fan, leaving one to wonder if she were a compositional afterthought.

Edgar Degas

September 16, 2005 - January 15, 2006

Japonisme

November 4, 1994 - January 22, 1995

Selection V

April 29 - May 25, 1975

Exchange Exhibition of Paintings from Rose Museum, Brandeis University

February 16 - April 2, 1967

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in the public domain (CC0 1.0). This object is Dancer with a Bouquet with the accession number of 42.213. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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