# Estérel Village

**Edgar Degas** (French, 1834–1917)  
c. 1890  
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.)

Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.177. [The museum's record](https://clevelandart.org/art/1966.177).

## About this work

This landscape is one of many monotypes that Edgar Degas produced throughout his career. The work belongs to a series Degas made while visiting a friend in the French countryside. Its blurriness resembles the view he saw out the window of trains and carriages during his travels. To translate the effects of weather and the natural terrain, he created layers of color and texture that border on abstraction in the final composition.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

Edgar Degas made this in about 1890, aged about 51. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

### [Edgar Degas](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/edgar-degas)

French, 1834–1917; born in Paris; died in Paris

Degas trained in the academic tradition, admired Ingres and spent three years in Italy copying earlier art, but turned to modern Paris for his subjects: dancers, racecourses, laundresses, milliners and café singers. He helped organise the Impressionist exhibitions and showed in all but one, yet preferred to call himself a realist. Working from drawing and memory rather than outdoors, he composed with unexpected cropping and viewpoints, and in later years worked mostly in pastel as his eyesight failed.

_Written by Ochre Editions._

## Facts

- Type: Print
- Culture: France, 19th century
- The artist was about 51
- Real size: about 12 × 16 in (30 × 40 cm). The 12 × 16 in print is close to life size.
- Century: 19th century
- Movement: [Impressionism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/movements/impressionism)
- Colour: brown
- Rights: public domain (CC0 1.0); free to use for any purpose.

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