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Edgar Degas

On Stage III, 1876-1877

Description

Maker

  • Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French

Title

On Stage III

Year

1876-1877

Medium

Soft-ground etching, drypoint, and roulette on cream-colored, slightly textured laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • soft-ground etching

Supports

  • Light weight cream wove paper

Dimensions

Image/plate: 9.9 x 12.7 cm (3 7/8 x 5 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, on plate, at ll: Degas. Recto:numbered in pencil in LL:D.32

Identification

State

v/v

Type

  • Works on Paper,
  • Prints

Credit

Gift of the Fazzano Brothers

Object Number

84.198.1083

Projects & Publications

Publications

Altered States

Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris
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Edgar Degas

Six Friends At Dieppe

Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré

the graphic works of nineteenth and twentieth century artists

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Altered States

June 30 - December 3, 2017

This image of a ballet performance was created by applying softened ground on the plate, into which Degas imprinted textured materials and drew, through paper, with a variety of pointed and broad-tipped tools, leaving crayon-like markings. Afterward, he used a roulette—a textured wheel—to make the patterns of regular dots seen throughout the backround.

Degas used nontraditional materials not only for printing plates but as etching tools. Around the time this print was made, he experimented with a double-pointed pen used by accountants, a wire brush, an emery stone, and the carbon rod used in electric arc lamps, among other tools.

Edgar Degas

September 16, 2005 - January 15, 2006

Use

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 On Stage III with the accession number of 84.198.1083. 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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