id: 142356 accession number: 1966.177 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.177 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:15.668000 Estérel Village, c. 1890. Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917). Color monotype; sheet: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.); image: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland 1966.177 title: Estérel Village title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1890 creation date earliest: 1885 creation date latest: 1895 current location: creditline: Fiftieth anniversary gift of The Print Club of Cleveland copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: color monotype department: Prints collection: PR - Monotype type: Print find spot: catalogue raisonne: Janis 276 --- CREATORS * Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) - artist Son of a Parisian banker, Edgar Degas enrolled in law school in 1853 following his father's wishes. But he had already shown an interest in art and had also registered to copy at the Louvre. In 1855 he entered the École des Beaux-Arts and became a student of Louis Lamothe (1822-1869), a former pupil of Ingres (q.v.). One year later Degas made the traditional journey to Italy, remaining there for three years. He visited family members in Naples and Florence and attended life classes at the Villa Medici in Rome. A visit to Normandy in 1861 may have introduced him to the racetrack. In Paris he continued to study at the Louvre, where he met Manet (q.v.) in 1862. Apart from his continuous interest in portraiture and history painting, Degas began to pay attention to subjects of modern life. Between 1865 and 1870, he exhibited at the Salon. At the time of the Franco-Prussian War, he enlisted in the artillery, but because of his poor eyesight he served (with Manet) in the infantry. After the war he traveled first to London and, in 1872-73, visited his uncle and brothers who had a cotton business in New Orleans. Degas participated in the first impressionist exhibition of 1874. He continued to exhibit with these artists until 1886 but never completely considered himself a member of the group, preferring to call himself a realist or naturalist. While many of the impressionists painted en plein air, Degas worked with models in his studio and, later in his career, from his imagination. In addition to painting, he experimented often with monotypes, engraving, pastels, sculpture, and photography. He traveled extensively-London, Naples, Spain, Morocco, and Switzerland-but continued to draw his subject matter from modern-day Paris. Other recurring themes would be the female nude and the ballet dancer. After the impressionist exhibition of 1886, Degas no longer participated in group shows. Instead he sold his works to private dealers such as Durand-Ruel and Ambroise Vollard. In the 1890s he began his own art collection, which, besides many works on paper, included paintings by such artists as Ingres, Cézanne (q.v.), Delacroix (q.v.), Gauguin (q.v.), and van Gogh (q.v.). His own art at the time became characterized by broader strokes of paint, charcoal, and pastel and the use of more vibrant colors, partly because of problems with his vision. His failing eyesight and poor health caused him to abandon his pursuit of art during the last years of his life. --- measurements: Sheet: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.); Image: 29.9 x 39.9 cm (11 3/4 x 15 11/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: description: beige (2) laid paper watermarks: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review opening date: 1970-01-14T05:00:00 The Print Club of Cleveland, 1919 - 1969: Fifty Years in Review. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (January 14-March 31, 1970). title: Monotypes opening date: 1981-03-03T05:00:00 Monotypes. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (March 3-July 5, 1981). title: Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland opening date: 1991-04-02T05:00:00 Generous Donors: A Tribute to The Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991). title: Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints opening date: 2001-08-26T00:00:00 Inventive Impressions: 18th- and 19-Century French Prints. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 26-October 28, 2001). title: Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century opening date: 2004-08-15T00:00:00 Nature Sublime: Landscapes from the 19th Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 15-November 14, 2004). title: Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes opening date: 2006-10-13T00:00:00 Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (October 13, 2006-January 21, 2007). title: Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-03-09T00:00:00 Treasures on Paper from the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 9-June 8, 2014). title: Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty opening date: 2016-03-22T00:00:00 Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (organizer) (March 22-July 24, 2016). title: A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland opening date: 2019-05-05T04:00:00 A Lasting Impression: Gifts of the Print Club of Cleveland. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 5-September 22, 2019). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Degas Landscapes. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (January 21 - April 3, 1994); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (April 24 - July 3, 1994).', 'opening_date': '1994-01-21T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE René de Gas date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Maurice de Gas date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Maurice Exteens date: ?-? footnotes: citations: Valentine Abdy, Paris date: ?-? footnotes: citations: (Eugene V. Thaw, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH) date: ?-1966 footnotes: citations: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1966- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 173 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n197 Stechow, Wolfgang. "Cleveland's Golden Anniversary Acquisitions." Artnews 65, no. 5 (September 1966): 30-64. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: n.p. url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 173 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n197 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 214 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n234 Kendall, Richard. Degas Landscapes. Exh. Cat. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Mentioned: 157-58, 306, no. 45; Reproduced: p. 161 url: Dumas, Ann. "Degas, the Secret Landscapist." In Ann Dumas, Richard Kendall, et al. Edgar Degas: The Last Landscapes, 9-31. Exh. Cat. Columbus: Columbus Museum of Art, 2006. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: p. 23 url: Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 356 url: Beyer, Jonas. "Movement and Landscape." In Degas: A Strange New Beauty. Jodi Hauptman, 176-201. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 200, fig. 150 url: Munro, Jane. "Nature and Landscape." In Degas: A Passion for Perfection. Jane Munro, Richard Kendall, Timothy J. Standring, Jill DeVonyar, Victoria Avery, Jo Dillon, and Anna Gruetzner, 116-135. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 133, fig. 143 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.177/1966.177_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.177/1966.177_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1966.177/1966.177_full.tif